[chirp_devel] Python 3 status

[David Ranch]

Hello Joe,

Does this mean all of the changes you made in your personal repo are now 
in Dan's new Chirp Github repo?

--David
KI6ZHD



On 08/24/2021 06:45 PM, Joe Pizzi via chirp_devel wrote:
> I removed my unofficial repository.
>
>
>
> Joe Pizzi
>
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> Subject: Re: [chirp_devel] Python 3 status
>
>> The world has moved to Git.
> OMG, really? I totally missed this memo. I guess we *have* to move. We
> should probably all run Windows too, right? Yay monoculture! :)
>
>> (On a personal note, I was quite interested in working on the py3 branch
> until I discovered all of the compatibility cruft, at which point I lost
> interest entirely.)
>
> So why are you here? Just heckling and hoping that someone else will get the
> project to the point where you're willing to contribute? This is my general
> hesitancy to move stuff just because someone shows up and says "If only this
> project used tool X, then I'd contribute." The opinions of people who have
> actually contributed meaningfully weigh much more on me than those that
> haven't.
>
> Moving to a new language and toolchain requires people that *have*
> contributed a lot to change, it requires me to change my build environment,
> and other knock-on impacts. Obviously I want it to just magically be
> current, but that involves a lot of work on my part, and even though might
> be great if it meant more contributors, it's still work.
>
> As I said I would, just created this:
>
> https://github.com/kk7ds/chirp
>
> ...and I will endeavor to sync back and forth between there and the
> mercurial repo so that people can, for the moment, submit to either. If/when
> the github side becomes the obvious default (clearly it will over time) and
> we can get the current major contributors happy with it, then I can work on
> making the build infrastructure pull from git and then stop the mercurial
> synchronization.
>
> One of the primary reasons to tolerate github, IMHO, is travis, but
> unfortunately travis has seemingly abandoned the OSS people that used it
> before. In just working to get the tests running in travis I burned a
> substantial number of my own credits just getting it going, so at this
> point, I don't think it's really an option, unfortunately. I hope that
> changes.
>
> For those that have set up unofficial git repos, it would probably benefit
> the world if you could either mark those as deprecated, remove them, or at
> least point at the above repo in a comment or something.
>
> Joe, I assume you'd rather propose your patches (which I haven't looked at
> yet) against the github repo. If not, let me know.
>
> --Dan
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