The future of this project

Marcin Kuźmiński marcin at maq.io
Tue Jun 13 08:04:54 UTC 2017


Hi All,

Given the opportunity of this email thread, i'd like to pitch in the
open-source version of RhodeCode CE again.

- A fully functional, free AGPL v3.0 software
- based on a modern web framework - Pyramid
- we had almost 20 releases in last 12 months
- introduced major features like Git LFS, Mercurial Evolve
- per repo settings
- web mergeable pull requests
- integration framework
- and many more
- a quickly growing community use base we currently have over 170 people on
our community slack channel.

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.

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.

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.

Happy to chat about any options again, if someone is interested.

Best,

On 12 June 2017 at 17:41, Dominik Ruf <dominikruf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> this mail is overdue, but I always hoped it would get better. :-/
> I know this is a community project and we all have other responsibilities.
> So I understand that a request does not get answered instantly.
> But for example my pull requests about 'repository settings' is now
> literally waiting for YEARS.
> 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.
> 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.
>
> So my questions to you guys is this:
> What are your future plans for this project?
> Are there any chances that this project will start moving more quickly?
> If not, I believe it has no real future. :-(
> Which would be a shame. I have quite a few ideas for it and think it
> really has potential.
>
> cheers
> Dominik
>
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