Xinc development is dead

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

There has been no activity for years.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

A flourishing community with very active development, frequent releases, warm 
smiles and lots of high-fives.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Version 2.0.1.1, the latest version, released over two years ago!

Please provide any additional information below.

This project has a lot of promise. I have struggled with installing and 
configuring this project, it's not a lot of fun. But once everything clicks 
into place, and you see it working, there's a sense of accomplishment. It just 
works. It's a good app!

Sure, Hudson is the new shiny toy that everyone likes to play with, but it 
requires Java. And so does phpUnderControl. In fact, most Continuous 
Integration servers are implemented in Java. I do not want to have to install 
Java on a server just to run one application. I do not want to install Python, 
or Perl, or Ruby, for the same reason.

My build servers are lean, and they always represent the production environment 
as closely as possible. This includes software and configuration. Just as my 
development, testing and staging servers represent production. I don't mean to 
offend anyone, but installing Java makes me cringe.

Here are some lists of the alternatives, not that none of them has PHP as their 
implementation language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Continuous_Integration_Software
http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CC/CI+Feature+Matrix

Searching for Xinc on Stackoverflow shows that this project is mentioned 
frequently as a solution to a problem, but is brushed aside because it is DEAD:
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=xinc

I have been a PHP developer for many years, working in numerous start-ups, web 
development companies and consultancies. Some PHP developers/sysadmins/managers 
are not comfortable with Java/Python/Ruby/C# in their environment. I don't know 
if that's a form of racism, or if it's common-sense, but I have seen it.

This is why Xinc is promising. There are a hell of a lot of PHP developers out 
there. And a lot of them understand the important of continuously testing, 
building and deploying their code. Their problem is that there is no simple 
solution that exists in their environment of choice.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bere...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2010 at 11:07

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Xinc is free software released under the GNU LGPL.  The code could be forked 
from what exists in the 2.0.2 branch of Subversion.

Original comment by aaron.s....@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2011 at 2:33

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Original comment by opitz.al...@googlemail.com on 31 Jul 2011 at 11:22

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