[M3devel] Status of CM3

[John Marino]

On 5/27/2014 17:34, Dragiša Durić wrote:
> You can count on me for release engineering, Git migration… Maybe CI,
> if I have resources. Problem is - feedback is poor from core
> developers wrt Git migration. I am ready for long time now.


This might be a good time to remind that I've been waiting for a release
that feature C-backend support for both FreeBSD and DragonFly (new).
The version in FreeBSD ports is 4 years old, but there's not been a
release since then.  The last time I was active on the list we discussed
the needs of FreeBSD and for porting M3 to DragonFly and something was
supposed to happen code-wise (and then release-wise) but I don't think
anything did in the end.

I was extremely busy with other projects but was planning on pinging on
this topic soon anyway.

John


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> On 25 May 2014, at 18:36, Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 25 May 2014 22:35:09 +0800 Bruce Axtens
>> <bruce.axtens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear Sir
>>> 
>>> Should I assume that CM3 is alive, in palliative care or dead?
>>> The trac system is full of spam and the roadmap hasn't moved for
>>> 3 years.
>>> 
>>> I had a long and fruitful relationship with Modula-2 years ago
>>> and thought that perhaps I could restart things with CM3.
>> 
>> There is certainly some activity in M3 development recently,
>> though the community is rather small. The trac system has never
>> been much used by the community members; and the WWW presentation
>> and regression testing system has lacked my support, as I couldn't
>> spent any time on these topics for almost 3 years.
>> 
>> You should check the m3devel mailing list for news though: 
>> https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3devel
>> 
>> There has been a lot of activity at the beginning of this year; it
>> has ceased again during recent weeks.
>> 
>> All CVS commits can be found here: 
>> https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit
>> 
>> A new release is long overdue; I'm afraid I cannot do the release 
>> engineering this time.
>> 
>> There has been some effort on moving the CVS repositories to git; 
>> I'm not sure what the status is there, too.
>> 
>> Any help wrt. documentation, presentation or software is greatly 
>> appreciated ;-)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
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