Re: [gedit-list] A come back

[Jordi Mas <jmas softcatala org>]

Hello Sébastien

My name is Jordi Mas. In the last months I have been doing a dozen fixes to the gedit-plugins module. Plugins were broken because the migration from Python 2 to Python 3 was not tested extensivily (I'm also the author of the Translate plugin). I had also added recently static analysis in the CI on the plugins repository to prevent future regressions . Additionally I have been approving low handing fruit pull requests and doing some fixes in gedit also.

For  me personally, the first question to answer is which are gedit potential users.  For example, if we say that is intended as an simple IDE clearly gnome-builder is doing a fantastic job in the last months and also we are missing key functionalities like been able to work with projects (even if we have now the sessions plugin back).  Once this is clear, for me we should align on a roadmap that is a mix between that the user needs and what we want to work on. For example, looking at different sources (including Issues, Ubuntu bug reports, etc) it's clear that the users have some clear requests from users:

• Gedit cannot deal with large files. The user  experience is really broken. We know that this due to Gtk but this is one of the top user problems.
• Many users are not happy how we handle encodings. Does not fit all user cases. In particular, since we removed the option to select encoding to open files from the open file dialog box.
• Many users are not happy with the fact that when you open a new file if you do not give it at name is not save it automatically and you can lose data.
• etc

If there is an IRC meeting I'm happy to participate then we can further align on these topics.

Best regards,

Jordi

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:18 PM Sébastien Wilmet <foss swilmet be> wrote:

Hi,

I haven't contributed much to Gnome this past year, I sufferred from too
much stress.

But I'm now back, with plenty of plans for gedit and other GTK-based
text editors.

What made me want to come back, is after writing the following blog
post, 10 years after the creation of my first GTK text editor project:
https://swilmet.be/blog/2019/08/18/10-years-later/

I have started to contribute to gedit again, since last week-end. On the
wiki and the documentation. I plan to write more documentation for
contributors, plugin authors, etc. And of course work on the code once
the freeze is lifted.

Jeremy: you can still do the releases for the end of this development
cycle, or I can do it, as you prefer (I have already done gedit releases
in the past). It's great that you take care of gedit after the project
being unmaintained. I suppose that you don't mind if I become a
co-maintainer of gedit.

Cheers!
Sébastien

PS: I should look at this Discourse thing, maybe gedit is there too.
PPS: I'm not really on IRC, I prefer async discussions and I don't like
notifications. But maybe we can arrange an IRC meeting at a regular
interval, if there is a community of contributors around gedit.
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