[Orca-users] Orca dying on the vine?

[Allen Eastwood]

Hey Blair, I'm glad to see your response.

Being a sysadmin type myself, I agree totally with what you are saying on
the targeting side.  Unfortunately, that also means that I'm not able to
contribute much on the writing code side of things.

However, I can provide some solaris hosts for a few people, both x86
(virtual) and sun4u.  I can do testing also on sun4v.  At some point, I'm
thinking of getting a IBM workstation and when I do, then AIX becomes a
possibility also.

I would like to figure out some better packaging for Orca and the dependent
packages, and I'm willing to contribute any packages I create.

I've used git, mercurial and svn, and I have no issues either way, whatever
works best for the developer types.  ;-p

Regards,

-A

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 00:33, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
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