Truth or Dare:
This is a truth or dare post- it’s the truth and the dare is to offer serious, well defined suggestions and opinions. (offers to help on the project in any way you can, are great too..)
I am requesting help in pushing proteus forward, I have wanted for proteus to go open source even before I first officially received the code.
Soon after I had received the code and the official ‘go-ahead’ from the previous owner, I had developers who were helping to get proteus moving. I took a bit of advice to “clean up” the code base before it’s public release. I was really pushing for that goal, so that the code could go out ‘cleaned’ and make it easier for those people who wanted to help, do do just that-help. A few bug fixes happened along the way, but the code is still in a disarray- of sorts.
As my previous proteus update post mentions, I decided to freeze development so that the new GUI could be implemented. The gentleman who did it, did a great job in creating the graphics work for it, but the other half of the team, after weeks of nail-biting and patiently waiting, ended up and the last moment not being able to implement the graphics into the existing code base- again more time needed to be spent on his actual full-time career. I wish him well in all he does, he’s quite the nice gent, and if I were in his place, I’d have made the same decision he did.
I would like to get svn set up as soon as possible, some have suggested google code and other have suggested sourceforge- both of which I have heard of, but up until now, never had a need to use.
I would like some input on how to get this train back on it’s tracks, from choosing the license (I am favoring GPL) to setting up the code repository, and setting up structure for the project.
Several people have stepped forward with offers to help (some of which totally surprised me), and this is great- I now need your advice and suggestions to finally get this turkey in the wild!