<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">Hi All,</span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">Given the opportunity of this email thread, i'd like to pitch in the open-source version of RhodeCode CE again.</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">- A fully functional, free AGPL v3.0 software</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">- based on a modern web framework - Pyramid</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">- we had almost 20 releases in last 12 months</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><span class="gmail-m_507414555599418330Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- introduced major features like Git LFS, Mercurial Evolve<br><span class="gmail-m_507414555599418330Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- per repo settings</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><span class="gmail-m_507414555599418330Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- web mergeable pull requests</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><span class="gmail-m_507414555599418330Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- integration framework</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><span class="gmail-m_507414555599418330Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>- and many more</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">- a quickly growing community use base we currently have over 170 people on our community slack channel.</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">As a part of Management team i must admit that close sourcing the project was a big mistake, however, we learned our lesson, and bet on the new business model that is based on OpenSource Core and RhodeCode will have a CE free edition. </div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">We talked a bit about some co-operation, and i believe it's a good time to re-think this. I'll be blunt, i think that it doesn't look like there a sense of two such similar open-source projects to exist.</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">I highly valued contribution from this community that was done into the RhodeCode codebase, i invite everyone again to join and have an influence on the tool you or your company is using regularly.</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">Happy to chat about any options again, if someone is interested.</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:SFUIText-Regular;font-size:15px">Best,</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 June 2017 at 17:41, Dominik Ruf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dominikruf@gmail.com" target="_blank">dominikruf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>this mail is overdue, but I always hoped it would get better. :-/</div><div>I know this is a community project and we all have other responsibilities. So I understand that a request does not get answered instantly.</div><div>But for example my pull requests about 'repository settings' is now literally waiting for YEARS.</div><div>Or lately my 'Port Kallithea theme to Bootstrap' pull request. I asked multiple times for some feedback, but since 2 MONTH I got nothing. I understand that reviewing takes time, but at least some kind of comment is not too much to ask. And some pull request like 'catch MemoryErrors when calling git diff' are really trivial.</div><div>This can not continue in this way. This project is now almost 3 years old and we have very little to show for ourselves. In fact there were questions if this project is actually alive (can't find the link right now). And I can't blame anybody to think so. Kallithea has improved very little. Version 0.3 is 20 month ago.</div><div><br></div><div>So my questions to you guys is this:</div><div>What are your future plans for this project?</div><div>Are there any chances that this project will start moving more quickly?</div><div>If not, I believe it has no real future. :-(</div><div>Which would be a shame. I have quite a few ideas for it and think it really has potential.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Dominik</div></font></span></div>
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