[Geany-devel] GProject - missing Geany patches

[Jiří Techet]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:30, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:18:16 +0200
> Jiří Techet <techet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 15:03, Jiří Techet <techet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > first sorry for disappearing for such a long time - I didn't have
>> > much free time left in the past months and from the time I had I
>> > dedicated most of it to the libchamplain library I maintain to make
>> > some bigger changes and adapt it to GTK 3 in time for Gnome 3. The
>> > good news is that I didn't convert to Eclipse or Emacs
>> > meanwhile ;-).
>> >
>> > There are still quite many patches I have against geany in my
>> > repository and I'd like to have at least part of them merged so I
>> > don't have to maintain my own geany branch. So at the moment the
>> > highest-priority patches for me are those which are necessary in
>> > order to make GProject working so it can become one of official
>> > geany plugins. The patches can be found at usual place:
>> >
>> > https://gitorious.org/~techy/geany/gproject-geany
>> >
>> > under the for_review4 branch. Only the first three of them are
>> > needed for GProject so they should have the highest priority when
>> > reviewing:
>> >
>> > 4774306b7f65237ef75b01e8d6c8312dcc5c526e Make project patterns
>> > visible 57b4120f94e611e8143fba89e397588de8693ec3 Use project
>> > patterns in the FIF dialog 2edb068b81cb6d541d667efecd0ec4c346f0df51
>> > Open the file in the msgwindow even if no linenumber is specified
>> >
>> > More info about the patches is in the commit description. If there
>> > are some questions, please ask me. Also if you prefer the patches
>> > in the form of ordinary patches rather than git repo, just let me
>> > know.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Jiri
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> more than two weeks have passed without any response and I fear it
>> will end the same way as many times before - that I post my patches,
>> nobody looks at them and they get forgotten. I fully understand that
>> people have limited time to work on geany (so do I), the problem is
>> that most of the patches are 9 months old and they haven't been
>> reviewed so far.
>>
>> Of course I understand that you may not want to have some patches
>> merged to geany - just tell me and I'll either remove or rework them.
>> I'd just like to get some sort of feedback - positive or negative.
>>
>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with to get the
>> patches reviewed. Or, if you don't want my patches at all for some
>> reason, please tell me as well so I stop spamming the mailing list
>> with them.
>
> As from my point, I'm afraid I cannot add much value to this as I'm not
> very experienced with GOBject and stuff. That's why I didn't mess
> around with your patches also.

Hi Frank, you probably confuse my patches with something else -
there's no GObject involved in my code. The G stands for Geany or Glob
(whatever you prefer) and the plugin serves for better project
management and easier handling of huge projects (displays project file
tree, enables header/source swapping, makes searching inside project
easier, enables searches by file name).

However, there are still some missing patches (those three mentioned
above) I need to get applied in geany in order to make it working. The
rest are just random improvements and bug fixes.

>
> And as I mentioned according to plugin interface discussion, I like to
> have it this way for enabling GObject fun: I want to have someone with
> experince managing this kind of stuff.

This is actually me but personally I have no interest in introducing
gobject into Geany - you need quite a lot of boilerplate code and
Geany's code is very nice in doing things in a simple way. Also as you
say, it requires some extra knowledge so it reduces the number of
possible contributors, which isn't a good thing IMO.

Cheers,

Jiri