Re: Forking and building a new version of dia

[Thomas Harding <tom thomas-harding name>]

Le 10 juillet 2018 18:15:29 GMT+02:00, Marco van Beek <marco 84andahalf com> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I am a regular user of dia, and am saddened that it is slowly decaying
> as a project.
>
> I have an idea that might help create a new version with functionality
> not found in any other system.
>
> I have been documenting a fairly large system and realised how quickly
> the diagrams will go out of date, just because cables get moved, and so
> on.
>
> So it occurred to me that given the xml data format, it should be
> reasonably easy to come up with a client-server version, using an API
> on a standard LAMP/WAMP server.
>
> With that in mind, I am happy to put some time into the server side,
> using apache to do the authentication, php to send/receive the XML and
> images, and MySQL / MariaDB for the database. There would have to be
> some sort of admin interface, and also an easy way to change, for
> example, that PC21 is now plugged into wall port 65, and so on. Then
> every time you need to issue a diagram, all you have to do is load the
> data from a query, and maybe tweak the layout. 
>
> This would also make it multiuser, since people patching could be
> adding data without the person doing the diagrams having to stop work,
> or do it all themselves.
>
> There may be a system already out there we could tap into with just an
> API but I am thinking that this could be really powerful.
>
> So what do people think? I think we would have to fork the project, but
> if it is dying anyway that is often the easiest way to take control.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marco
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The better if someone have capability would be to takeover Dia project, as it's last maintainer, Steffen 
Macke, died 4 years ago.

It seems the way is to contact the Gnome project's maintainers.

Note he also helded up the MS Windows build and site.

IMHO, keeping alive the upstream project is the fair way where fork is unnecessary.

But obviously that's up to who wants to work on it.

(you could also take a look at GNU Affero-GPL regarding client-server effort, in order to keep your future 
stuff free from companies)

Best regards,
TSFH
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