Add shoebill to emaculation?

[davewongillies]

I'm not sure if this is something that you're interested in, but I thought perhaps it could be a good to add shoebill to this Github org? I'm not sure if anyone is out there patching it much but it at least looks like it could do with some love and care to get it compiling on recent OSes now that the maintainer isn't able to work on it due to contractual reasons. I'd be happy to help out with getting CI working for it.

[ianfixes]

I am open to this idea, but I don't feel comfortable doing that without hearing from the current maintainer.

Strictly speaking, the emaculation GitHub organization that I created is a set of forks of the original cebix/macemu repo. Although @cebix had graciously provided his source code on GitHub, he is seemingly and understandably not able to devote much time to reviewing or merging pull requests, setting up CI, etc -- things that would enable the more active members of its community to carry the torch on this project. @cebix has accepted my invitation to be an admin on this project, but I haven't heard from him on whether the official home for this code will change; the next step would be to invite some of the owners of the most prolific forks (e.g. @kanjitalk755) to be admins here.

So it makes a lot of sense to fork a somewhat-abandoned project here, but the goal of such a move should be to centralize a community of developers, not split an existing one. What's the best way to pose that question to the shoebill community?

[kanjitalk755]

Reference: My repo can be built with macOS10.14/Xcode10.

https://github.com/kanjitalk755/shoebill

$ make && open gui/build/Release/Shoebill.app

[ianfixes]

@kanjitalk755 the graph for shoebill suggests that you are indeed the current steward of that code. https://github.com/pruten/shoebill/network

Would you like me to bring that over for you? Also, may I make you an admin of this github organization? My only pressing to-do item for any of these repos is to set up functioning cross-platform builds in CI (my area of expertise) then step back.

[kanjitalk755]

I don't want to be an admin. I just prepared Shoebill that can be built in the current environment.

[ianfixes]

I don't really want to be an admin either, I'm in no way qualified to contribute or evaluate changes to the emulator itself. I just need someone who can carry that torch -- even briefly -- and get it closer to whoever the most qualified person is to be an admin. If not you, who would you recommend?

That's part of why I put everything in a GitHub organization, because I know that individually we aren't in a position to make long-term commitments to this codebase.

[kanjitalk755]

Sorry, I think no one to recommend.

[ianfixes]

@davewongillies after some discussion in https://github.com/pruten/shoebill/issues/13 it looks like we will be forking Shoebill here!

[ianfixes]

Forked at https://github.com/emaculation/shoebill Appveyor and TravisCI have been enabled for that repo.

@davewongillies I set up placeholders for the CI work

• https://github.com/emaculation/shoebill/issues/1
• https://github.com/emaculation/shoebill/issues/2
• https://github.com/emaculation/shoebill/issues/3

[ianfixes]

@kanjitalk755 just to be clear about your vision here, are you saying you'd prefer to contribute pull requests to this repository instead of having other people submit pull requests to your own fork?

[kanjitalk755]

I think it's good to submit a PR to emaculation/shoebill instead of my fork.

[ianfixes]

Understood. Do you feel similarly about https://github.com/emaculation/macemu ?

[kanjitalk755]

Currently, BII and SS distributed at https://www.emaculation.com/forum/ are built from my fork. Therefore, if someone want to reflect in the distribution there, I think the PR to my fork is good.