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elouboub , 6 months ago

mbin? Is kbin dead?

jerry OP , 6 months ago

It appears so

melroy Admin , 6 months ago

Officially not.. but the development slowed down too much and was too restricted by Ernest. I wanted to avoid a fork. But I didn't saw any good alternative.

elouboub , 6 months ago

Is Ernest OK? Maybe the explosion of interest was a bit too much to handle right now. Out of curiosity, why did you fork it to github and not stay on codeberg?

AngrilyEatingMuffins , 6 months ago

I think he’s a little burnt out

melroy Admin , 6 months ago

I don't know what is happening with Ernest, he said there were families issues. He did respond to me on October 3 for the last time. However, developers were NOT allowed to merge pull requests from others. He stopped developers from merging code. He couldn't let it go, which is a problem if you are not in for weeks or sometimes months. The issue was that development become to a halt, contributors were no longer motivated! I tried to discuss this topic with Ernest multiple times now, without any answers. At some point it was the final straw. I forked the project and introduce a C4 Wow based on trust, allowing dozens of people to have owner rights and giving back the control to the developers, contributors and users or admins.

Moving to GitHub was only done because Codeberg was down too often in the past year. Which was very frustrating when you want to work together with people. So I also moved to GitHub with GitHub Actions during the forking.

melroy Admin , 6 months ago

Ps. this issue was already going on for the past few months. Causing Kbin development to slowly halt further and further.

elouboub , 6 months ago

Thanks you for the background. Pity codeberg was down so often. Probably german internet, lul.

Hadn't heard of C4Wow. Looks like you could add MBin to the list of implementations at the bottom of the page.

Good luck! I hope it works out :)

melroy Admin , 6 months ago

I was also trying to prevent a fork, but I didn't saw any way out. Hence the fork by the community, for the community. I hope so as well, the idea is that we work as a real team and active contributors have GitHub owner rights. We peer-review each other code and are allowed to merge pull requests. There is no single maintainer, we are all maintainers.