Fork Volt

[ghost]

For the interested people, because our interest in maintaining this project has been ignored will be made a fork to maintain and not let this project die. Coming soon.

[ryanstout]

Just so we have it. I've been looking for a new maintainer for a while. (It's been discussed quite a bit in our gitter room) I'm happy to give a new maintainer control over the repo once one is found. The big issue so far is that no one who I believe would make a good maintainer has come forward. Volt is trying to solve some big problems elegantly. I would want whoever comes forward to have a very strong ruby and CS background. (It would be pretty easy to make a poor design decision with volt that would ultimately hurt the framework, especially on the performance side)

That said, forks are welcome. I do hope to get time to come back to this project some day, and I would love to pick up where a fork left off :-)

[brejoc]

@ryanstout I had the opportunity to talk to @Poncho09 over the last few days and he told me his organization (Astian Foundation) would be willing to invest money, so that you would be able to redirect some of your time into the project. Isn't hat possible? As far as I know @Poncho09 isn't very keen to fork the project. He would rather see you pick up the project-lead-hat again. Given that you reach an agreement suitable for you and the Astian Foundation.

[dfyx]

@brejoc The thing is that @Poncho09 hasn't provided us with much information about the Astian Foundation. What can they provide? Money? Man power? Knowledge? All I can see right now is a rudimentary website in broken English and some largely inactive repositories in GitLab. They're basically asking @ryanstout to quit his job to work for them so I guess some more info would be in order.

[brejoc]

I'm seeing a chance here and I just would like to see it evaluated. I think the exact conditions are something @Poncho09 and @ryanstout should exchange in a more private channel. It would just be nice, if this exchange would actually happen. But you are right, @dfyx. The foundations website is not in a very good shape. So is yours btw: 503 Service Unavailable. ;) But I'm not sure, if this should be the only criteria for hearing @Poncho09 out. And I would love to have have that inactive repos.

Look, I'm not saying @ryanstout should do that. That is none of my business. And when it comes to such an agreement, there is much more involved than money. But not having the best looks or not speaking English as your first language is not a reason to hear someone out… at least for me.

[dennym]

This post should be closed. No issue, no relevant updates. Just go for the fork and come back with an update about the improved fork.

[ghost]

@dfyx I appreciate the participation of you, and well the Astian Foundation is younger much younger than Volt, the Astian Foundation only has approximately 7 or 8 months of having been founder and opened in the city of Bogota - Colombia, already has a headquarters in Barranquilla - Colombia and soon we would be opening a seat in Phuket Thailand. But despite being 8 months, we have a great commitment to free software and technologies. Our main project is an operating system based on the discontinued Firefox OS, it is a complicated mission because we have to do what the Mozilla Foundation did not do, but even we are willing to do it. We work with several major companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Huawei Hardware manufacturers among others to re-innovate with a really different operating system, open and more scalable with significant improvements compared to Android SailFish or Ubuntu Touch.

The idea is to allow Volt to run on Astian OS in order to take advantage of the hardware of the devices by using Ruby and thus continue enriching the applications. Another of our projects is an application oriented to IoT, WoT for home automation and business environments, a framework for building applications with augmented reality executed in Astian OS, Android and Windows totally free and others .

@brejoc thanks for your participation, I do not usually judge people by their language for their work, race or origin and much less judge by their website because there are horrible websites but still serve the purpose of informing. That says a lot about a person or an organization. This it does not help to build a free Internet, but good if my primary language is not English so I continue perfecting it but we can speak Portuguese or Spanish for me no problem.

Thank you for your attention and participation.