Re: [Swftools-common] SWFTools Wiki

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Dear Chris,

sorry for the late reply.

Thank you for your work with the wiki.

To your last question, I’d move the wiki to GitHub if it costs you money
right now.

I think there is a more relevant issue here. swftools are unactive for
more than a year.

-Lastest commit in master was from Thu Jul 25 19:49:07 2013 -0700.

-Lastest message from Matthias to the list was from Wed, 14 Aug 2013
16:36:56 -0400,

-In a message to the list from Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:55:28 -0700, Matthias
states that there is a branch that would replace xpdf with poppler. In
the public git (I have just cloned), there is no other branch than master.

Sorry if I’m missing something. I’m not a fan of GitHub, but I think it
could help here. At least to track bug reports. Having them in a mailing
list is the best way to forget them.

Even if the GitHub repository contains no code, it would be useful to
host the wiki and to have the issues organized at one place.

Just in case it might help, I have just created the swftools
organization there [I can transfer it to anyone who wants to have it, or
I could simply delete it]

What do you think about this, Chris?

I hope this helps to clarify the situation.

Cheers,


Pablo




On 09/13/2014 11:00 AM, RDP wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> The SWFToolls Wiki has been hosted ( and partially maintained ),  by
> myself for a considerable period.  What seemed like a good idea at the
> time, now possibly is no longer.  Changes have to be made, both to
> wiki's location, it's general structure and content, and, more to the
> point, it's actualy survival as a web
> resource.
> 
> A few points to note,
> 
> - The SWFTools  software suite itself appears to have been put in mothballs, 
> as
>   there have been no updates for a considerable time, last was 9th April 2013
> 
> - TheSWFTools does not appear to have forged many, if any, links with other
>   projects from which all could easily, and mutually benefit
> 
> - the wiki itsef has also not been updated/amednded in a considerable
> time.  Very
>   poor community spiriiedness.it would appear!  It's simply not a one
> person job!
> 
> -  credit should hereby go to one unsung, and very probably hitherto unnoticed
>    wiki user, Cthulhu.fhtagn,
> 
>        http://wiki.swftools.org/wiki/User:Cthulhu.fhtagn
> 
>    without whose sterling support, very kind assistamce, and time
> mis(spent), the
>    wiki would have been down ages ago due spam, bot, and other such attacks.
> 
> So, to all you out there, commercially biased or otherwise, that make 
> profitable
> and personal use of the SWFTools software, and occasioanally this mailing 
> list,
> 
> http://wiki.swftools.org/webstats/awstats.pl?config=awstats.wiki.swftools.org.conf
> 
> Whare to next, *if* anywhere?  Ditch, dump, or continue to maintain?
> 
> Thoughts people.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Chris P.


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