[Orca-users] Orca dying on the vine?

[Blair Zajac]

I have forked projects at github:

     http://github.com/blair

and a Mercurial one at

     http://code.google.com/p/scala-migrations/

So I don't think I would have another one at btibucket.org.

I do like the stacked git (stg) interface for dealing with patches better than 
Mercurial Queues, which I have been unable to see a way to reorder patches.

Blair

Hudes, Dana wrote:
> If you would move to using mercurial instead of git I think you might 
> like it. Hosting of project at btibucket.org
> 
> Mercurial has a very active community with many add-on tools
> 
> Thus far my modifications are to orcallator.cfg and orcallator.se
> 
> I was considering trying my hand at modifying to use use threads and the 
> Compres'Bzip2 library instead of forking off bunzip2 child processes in 
> the hope that might make orca scale better. If you've tried that and 
> found it unsatisfactory, I'd like to know.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: orca-users-bounces+hudesd=hra.nyc.gov at orcaware.com 
> <orca-users-bounces+hudesd=hra.nyc.gov at orcaware.com>
> To: Allen Eastwood <mixal at paconet.us>
> Cc: orca-users at orcaware.com <orca-users at orcaware.com>
> Sent: Sun Aug 30 01:33:12 2009
> Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Orca dying on the vine?
> 
> 
> On Aug 8, 2009, at 1:56 AM, Allen Eastwood wrote:
> 
>  > So, with the rather low level of activity both on the mailing lists 
>  > and development for Orca and SE, have we gotten to the point where 
>  > Orca/SE are pretty much dead?  They've been great tools over the 
>  > years, and I haven't seen anything that gives the same level of 
>  > insight.
> 
> I've always felt that Orca targets sysadmin people more than 
> developers so doesn't see as many contributions as compared to an open-
> source package that targets developers.
> 
> Orca is GPL and I do take patches for it.  So there's nothing stopping 
> people from contributing.
> 
> It could be a good idea to move it to github so that people can make 
> use of github's forking model that makes it easier for people to work 
> on their copy of the code and I can pull those changes into my version 
> of Orca for official releases.
> 
> I'm always looking for people who want to get involved and contribute 
> code.  I've given commit access to a few people to make it better.  So 
> the more the merrier.
> 
> Regards,
> Blair