Re: [GtkGLExt] My GtkGLExt updates and request to take maintainership

[Braden McDaniel <braden endoframe com>]

On 10/13/09 4:23 PM, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have put up a git repository of my modifications to GtkGLExt at
> <https://www.banu.com/git/?p=gtkglext.git;a=summary>.
>
> The commit log should be self-explanatory. The major change is an
> upgrade of OpenGL's extensions to current headers as published by the
> Khronos Group.  There are some bug fixes too.  This work is based on
> where Naofumi left off (since then, except for bugfixes to examples,
> and automake files, nothing major has changed).
>
> The TODO list has a bunch of items for what needs to be done. I want to
> do a few more changes at least:
>
> 1. The wrappers around OpenGL extensions API need to be made more GLee
> like, and use less memory. Currently it's a pain to use the GtkGLExt
> wrappers.
>
> 2. Update the Pango backend which we use. The current code uses Pango X
> which is obsolete.
>
> 3. Move the repository to git.gnome.org, use bugzilla.gnome.org to
> track bugs (currently it lists just 1) and move the website to
> <http://projects.gnome.org/gtkglext/>.  gnome.org is a preferred home
> for it where several more GNOME developers will get commit access to
> its repositories by default.  I am a member of the GNOME foundation and
> can get this sorted if current maintainers are fine with it.
>
> 4. Make some automake related changes.
>
> I also request to take up maintainership of GtkGLExt. It doesn't seem
> actively maintained currently.

Well, I'd say it's semi-actively maintained.

It is hard to deny that the current maintainers (of which I'm one) are 
lacking the time and/or interest to give this project the attention that 
it needs.

I'm going to review your changes; but their intent, at least, sounds 
good.  I'd welcome the addition of a person willing and able to 
modernize GtkGLExt appropriately.  Speaking for myself, I'd like to 
remain attached to the project as a comaintainer.

We've actually been trying to migrate the project to gnome.org for more 
than a year.  This has been a bit of a fiasco.  Some of the delays in 
responsiveness were on our end; but most of them weren't.  Things 
petered out some months ago after repeated attempts to get Ralf 
Corsepius a gnome.org account were met with no response.  Assuming Ralf 
wishes to remain attached to this project and assuming the idea of 
moving to gnome.org isn't met with complete derision by the current 
comaintainers, that is the first problem that would need solving.

For my part, I see migration to gnome.org as something of an 
inevitability because I see this project's future (if it has one at all) 
as including absorption into GTK+ proper in some form.  I think moving 
to gnome.org raises this project's visibility among GNOME developers and 
hopefully facilitates realization of that future.

So I'm the easy sell.  But you may need to convince folks here that a 
move to gnome.org won't make administrative tasks completely impossible. 
 Because, frankly, that's how it looks to us right now.

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