Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:34 AM, Timm Bäder <mail baedert org> wrote:
> So... what's the deal here? Is there any way forward one could look
> into? Is it wip/transform? IIRC there was some dbus stuff broken here?
> Are there any TODO items for cleaning up the compiler? Should we just
> tell people to not use Vala in the first place (which would be better
> for the in the long run)? All of these are fine, but the current
> situation not so much.

I'd like to see Vala continue, it's IMHO the only reasonable way to 
write high-level apps in GObject, but I /am/ biased. :)

As people have pointed out, we can get patches landed, bindings are 
being updated, and we can respond and triage bugs, improve automated 
testing coverage and debate hosting choice of infrastructure, but none 
of that's going to be terribly useful unless significant new releases 
continue.

It really sounds like Vala needs some maintainers. Perhaps Jürg, Luca 
and Flo are still keen but too busy at the moment, perhaps someone else 
needs to step up. But either way there needs to be one or a few people 
with some idea of where they want Vala to go, who have the time to put 
in to make sure it starts heading in that direction. In the end, its 
the maintainers that would decide if things like wip/transform is the 
way to go or not.

//Mike

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