Terminator

Bug #1849375
Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1849375

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MattRose (mattrose) wrote on 2019-10-23:

1. I would dearly love to hear from either Chris (the original developer), or Stephen. IMO, without their explicit blessing, I would consider this a fork. I'm not sure launchpad would allow us to take over the repository and bugs without their OK, and even if they did, I wouldn't feel right doing it.

Having said that, I think, for the present, we should really look at GitHub for hosting rather than keeping it on Launchpad. We could move it to Gitlab, but I think that GH is familiar to most developers, and most developers have accounts on it, and it is really simple to do pull requests. I'm not familiar enough with Gitlab to be comfortable recommending it over Github.

2. Releases on github are equally simple, but the hard part would be convincing the various distributions to package the fork, and drop the original terminator. For Fedora (and consequently CentOS/RHEL) I (along with Dominic Hopf (~dmaphy) are the package maintainers, so this should be fairly simple, and as long as we can convince the debian maintainer, the change should filter through to all the debian derivatives. I have a bunch of experience releasing both prioprietary software and helping with releasing Open Source Software.

3. Personally on the naming thing, I would like to be able to keep the terminator name, with the blessing of the original maintainer, and if not, we should maybe think of using roboterm instead, tho as Shakespeare says; "A rose by any other name..." in the end I'm not too fussed however people decide on that one, should we have to change the name.

4. This is not as much of a concern for me. Learning new technologies is ... frustrating but interesting, and would be a key reason to actually take on a maintainership role. We can roll out the features that we're comfortable with, we fix bugs if we can. If we can't? Patches are welcome. It would be great if we were experts. This may sound a little egotistical, but I think if we spend a little time with the code we can be very competent maintainers.

I would be happy to take on a maintainership role. Ironically, even though I've used Linux for well over 25 years now, and have been using terminator for 10, I mainly use Mac these days, but I still like terminator and think it is a useful project, and I do use it when I'm using Linux, which I hope to be doing more of.

Anyway, that's my 2c

1.  I would dearly love to hear from either Chris (the original developer), or Stephen.  IMO, without their explicit blessing, I would consider this a fork.  I'm not sure launchpad would allow us to take over the repository and bugs without their OK, and even if they did, I wouldn't feel right doing it.

Having said that, I think, for the present, we should really look at GitHub for hosting rather than keeping it on Launchpad.  We could move it to Gitlab, but I think that GH is familiar to most developers, and most developers have accounts on it, and it is really simple to do pull requests.  I'm not familiar enough with Gitlab to be comfortable recommending it over Github.

2.  Releases on github are equally simple, but the hard part would be convincing the various distributions to package the fork, and drop the original terminator.  For Fedora (and consequently CentOS/RHEL) I (along with Dominic Hopf (~dmaphy) are the package maintainers, so this should be fairly simple, and as long as we can convince the debian maintainer, the change should filter through to all the debian derivatives.  I have a bunch of experience releasing both prioprietary software and helping with releasing Open Source Software.

4.  This is not as much of a concern for me. Learning new technologies is ... frustrating but interesting, and would be a key reason to actually take on a maintainership role.  We can roll out the features that we're comfortable with, we fix bugs if we can.  If we can't?  Patches are welcome.  It would be great if we were experts.  This may sound a little egotistical, but I think if we spend a little time with the code we can be very competent maintainers.

I would be happy to take on a maintainership role.  Ironically, even though I've used Linux for well over 25 years now, and have been using terminator for 10, I mainly use Mac these days, but I still like terminator and think it is a useful project, and I do use it when I'm using Linux, which I hope to be doing more of.

Anyway, that's my 2c