Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

[Zander Brown <zbrown gnome org>]

On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 14:31 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote:

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:04 PM Zander Brown <zbrown gnome org> wrote:

On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 12:59 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote:

What I was thinking is that we could channel some funds to a University and have them work on it. My native country (Venezuela) is in pretty bad shape but top-notch Universities are still operating despite the crisis. This would be a win-win IMHO.

Worth investigating

 

I reached out to a professor I know in one University to see what the real possibilities are.

 

Not sure directly competing with draw.io would work especially well

No, but it is the closest competitor AFAICT.

 

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Personally I'd like to see Dia remain a 'native' application (which seems to be the general view of others on the list as well) and plugable interfaces generally get very messy very fast (esp when we do a lot of custom rendering) so I'd rather Dia remains true to it's roots as a Gtk application

That's fine. My idea was just to stir things up a little and see what would come out of this discussion. 

No harm in discussion!

I think the main objective is saving DIA from being shunt out of the Linux distros and see how to maintain the Windows and Mac binaries. 

BTW, IIRC Steffen's widow received some revenue from the http://dia-installer.de/ Website so I think that even if Gnome takes over the maintenance of the Windows and Mac binaries somehow, perhaps they could still be distributed through http://dia-installer.de/ in coordination with her, in respect to Steffen all the years of effort that he put into maintaining these binaries all by himself.

Sounds like a nice thing to do, not sure what GNOME can offer in terms of Windows/macOS packaging but I'm up for supporting http://dia-installer.de/

Best,

Alex

 

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Zander Brown <zbrown gnome org>
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