Re: [ANN] Pyrite prerelease

From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Apr 24, 2008, 09:05 UTC
Message-ID: <871w4vhbcz.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <5d46db230804232342q1d92064bq7ea4fdba6f1551b6@mail.gmail.com>

"Govind Salinas" <govind@sophiasuchtig.com> writes:

> The official posting can be seen at
> http://pyrite.sophiasuchtig.com/2008/04/announce-001prealpha.html
>
> Hey Everyone,

For an announcement of a new project, I must say that it is *very* short on details on what Pyrite acutally is and what it does.

I now know where to find it and some things about the project status, but I have no idea why I should be interested. I even followed the link above, but I still have no idea, although now I know that it has something to do with Mercurial as well.

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> I am proud to announce the first pre-release of Pyrite 0.01prealpha. You
> can pull from git://gitorious.org/pyrite/mainline.git or
> http://git.gitorious.org/pyrite/mainline.git ( I think I will use gitorious for
> hosting since tuxfamily doesn't have an http clones, although I will
> sort-of miss the RSS feed).
>
> Why such a timid name? This is because it has taken me longer than I
> wanted to reach a point where I felt others could reasonably use and
> contribute to the project. There is still much work to be done before it
> is ready for a general purpose release. However, I need to see if
> people are really interested in both helping develop and, more
> importantly, using Pyrite and I feel that getting a release out there will
> help me gauge that.
>
> When I started this project, I had a good idea of what I wanted to
> accomplish but I wasn't entirely sure how I would do it. At this point I
> have an idea of how the interface should be presented and I will work
> to get it right. I hope people will have input on what improvements they
> would like to see to the UI.
>
> Other things that I want to do before making a general purpose release
> is to tie up some loose ends like proper rebasing and a graphical merge
> tool (at least support for external merge tools). That's just the tip of the
> iceberg though since I have plans to also do a gui and a web interface.
>
> Feel free to contact me about this if you are interested in using, testing
> or developing.
>
> Thanks,
> Govind.

-- 
David Kågedal