From 4328de857d7ed2f12a9c8162788e160dffaf097e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Schuh Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:49:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS: Git repository hosted on GitHub. git-svn-id: https://gflags.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@84 6586e3c6-dcc4-952a-343f-ff74eb82781d --- NEWS | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 431aad8..f049345 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,36 @@ +=== 20 April 2013 === + +More than a year has past since I (Andreas) took over the maintenance for +`gflags`. Only few minor changes have been made since then, much to my regret. +To get more involved and stimulate participation in the further +development of the library, I moved the project source code today to +[https://github.com/schuhschuh/gflags GitHub]. +I believe that the strengths of [http://git-scm.com/ Git] will allow for better community collaboration +as well as ease the integration of changes made by others. I encourage everyone +who would like to contribute to send me pull requests. +Git's lightweight feature branches will also provide the right tool for more +radical changes which should only be merged back into the master branch +after these are complete and implement the desired behavior. + +The SVN repository remains accessible at Google Code and I will keep the +master branch of the Git repository hosted at GitHub and the trunk of the +Subversion repository synchronized. Initially, I was going to simply switch the +Google Code project to Git, but in this case the SVN repository would be +frozen and force everyone who would like the latest development changes to +use Git as well. Therefore I decided to host the public Git repository at GitHub +instead. + +Please continue to report any issues with gflags on Google Code. The GitHub project will +only be used to host the Git repository. + +One major change of the project structure I have in mind for the next weeks +is the migration from autotools to [http://www.cmake.org/ CMake]. +Check out the (unstable!) +[https://github.com/schuhschuh/gflags/tree/cmake-migration cmake-migration] +branch on GitHub for details. -== 25 January 2012 == +=== 25 January 2012 === I've just released gflags 2.0. @@ -130,7 +160,7 @@ If you've tried to install a .rpm or .deb and it doesn't work for you, let me know. I'm excited to finally have 64-bit package files, but there may still be some wrinkles in the new system to iron out. -===1 October 2008=== +=== 1 October 2008 === gflags 1.0rc2 was out for a few weeks without any issues, so gflags 1.0 is now released. This is much like gflags 0.9. The major change