future of dot2tex

[Nicolas M. Thiery]

Dear Sage developers,

Here is the discussion I just had with dot2tex's developer's.

----- Forwarded message from "Nicolas M. Thiery" <Nicolas...@u-psud.fr> -----
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:05:03 -0400
To: Kjell Magne Fauske <kje...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dot2tex

Dear Kjell,

Thanks for your quick answer!

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 07:33:02PM +0200, Kjell Magne Fauske wrote:
> I'm no longer an active user of dot2tex, so maintaining dot2tex is
> unfortunately no longer a high priority for me.

Sure; that's the normal life cycle of any open source software!

> My original plan was to make one last stable version and then
> look for someone to take over the project. My last commit to the
> project was one year ago, so progress has been slow. Now that I
> know there is an urgent need for a new version I will bump it up
> on my priority list fix the critical bugs and make a new release.

Great, we appreciate this very much!

> Do you know of someone that could be interested in taking over dot2tex?

Well, I am not exactly volunteering :-) But there are a bunch of
regular dot2tex users in the Sage project; so with some chance we
should be able to at least find someone that would agree to do basic
maintenance (i.e. fix whatever little bugs we find for Sage, instead
of patching our package :-)).

But of course it would be nicer to have a real maintainer that would
develop it further!
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Nicolas
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