Re: [gnugo-devel] Membership request for group GNU Go

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() bump-math@sporadic.stanford.edu (Daniel Bump (bump@math.stanford.edu email))
() Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:44:28 -0700

   > I hope that by including gnugo-devel in the discussion, we
   > can get more perspectives and that the GNU Go maintainers
   > can be convinced to change their position to that of "do
   > not keep generated files under version control", on the way
   > to eventually approving a merge of that branch and future
   > development along those lines.

   I think I was the one that was arguing for this position
   (mainly so that someone could build gnugo more easily after
   downloading from savannah versus a tarball), and since Gunnar
   was not in agreement, I would not insist on the point.

That's great news.  Thanks for reconsidering!  I would like to
propose the next steps for us to take, collectively:

- create top-level file HACKING, includes info on
  - branch discipline (e.g., push to ‘master’ vs dev br & merge)
  - how to bootstrap (run autogen.sh, etc)
  - how to make a release
  - copyright discipline (e.g., once per year vs only on change)
  - coding conventions (whitespace, indentation, etc)
  - other developer-only info/lore
  - etc

- merge branch ‘ttn-maint’ (and delete afterwards)

- gather / apply other fixes found in the wild

- make a test maintenance release (published on alpha.gnu.org)
  (info "(maintain) Test Releases") and solicit timely feedback

- tweak as necessary / work out the kinks

- make a "real" maintenance release

I'm not a maintainer, but i can take a crack at writing HACKING
(adapting the GNU RCS HACKING[1], basically, w/ input from
everyone), and help out w/ the other stuff.  It's been many
years since the last GNU Go release, so there's no rush (IMHO),
but i think it would be reasonable to aim for "real" release by
end of year.

What do the maintainers think?  Is this something you'd approve?
I don't want to step on anyone's toes!

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/rcs.git/tree/HACKING?h=p

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