I’ve just read on Slashdot that applications for this year’s edition of Google’s Summer Of Code start in early March. I’m thinking about pushing this a little more this year for the monotone project, since we kind of “missed” it last year (we sent in our application too late). And I’m positive to also place at least one possible project for guitone there. While it certainly makes a lot of fun to code with Qt, it would make even more fun if somebody could team up and help out here and there…
In the other news: monotone 0.39 has been released yesterday and I’m once again astonished how easy openSUSE’s build service makes it to create rpms for a great variety of distributions and architectures. I’m currently using it to build openSUSE rpms for monotone and guitone there and its really easy and fun to do that.
I’m also pretty actively hacking on guitone at the moment, fixing bugs and implementing new features there. There are still some things on my TODO list before 0.8 is ready to release, amongst fixing bugs, f.e.
- make the filesystem watcher implementation usable and working properly, so guitone updates the workspace view in the background if changes happen to the underlying filesystem
- implement some of the workspace commands with native calls (i.e. add, drop), rename / move will be slightly harder, also wrt to view updates, maybe I’ll implement simple filename renames at first
The following things already have been implemented and are definitely part of 0.8:
- restricted commit (right-click on any file/folder and hit commit!)
- diff possibility for patched files in the commit and changeset dialogs
- a new panel to view, add, edit and drop database variables
- improved, more user friendly startup dialog which now also contains possibilities to edit the preferences and load recent databases and / or workspaces
- improved loading times for huge workspaces, f.e. loading the complete org.openembedded.dev should run a couple of times faster now
- and much more…
guitone 0.8 will also be the first version of guitone to be released under GNU GPLv3. Now that the Trolls released Qt 4.3.4 recently which allows licensing the library under the very same license, I’m positive that this change will not introduce too many headaches to distributors. Otherwise, drop me a note via private mail and we’ll work out a solution.
Based on my current workload and other activities (Chemnitzer LinuxTage, anyone?) I hope to get a stable version out mid march. No promises on this, though 😉