[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT for 21st century

[Rob M]

On Jan 19, 2017 6:53 AM, "Miro Kropáček" <miro.kropacek at gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you. As I wrote to Alan in other mail, I do it mainly for myself. :)

I've hated CVS, hated the SpareMiNT website, hated the fact it's so
freaking closed, amateur, inflexible, old, deprecated, hidden, buggy and
the most I hated the fact I can't change that because I lack skills and
time.


The SpareMiNT site is still running the original perl scripts written
decades ago.

 It's in the cvs and could be updated.  All I did.. 10 years ago???,  was
change the output to php to give it a better look.

I've always hoped we could have a more modern system with auto builds.

So, that's one of my questions about what to do with the server.  If I can
free up an ip address,  could the community setup a build system on it?

I could free one up now. My old atari-users.net site is the last one on
that ip. I could just kill the site. The cms php code is so old(fork of
phpnuke), I can't update the software. I can't even find scripts online to
convert the database to a newer cms like wordpress.  I just keep it for the
old news post.


Rob






My idea is to have FreeMiNT at least open to anyone curious enough to take
a look. For instance, I catch myself from time to time stalking other
github repositories for "atari", "amiga", "m68k" etc (you can look at my
github starred repos ;-)) so my hope is that sometime, somehow, we might
attract someone new. Or someone willing to update documentation. Prepare
release easily. Put a new logo on the website. Upload an interesting
project from his private archive. That kind of stuff which is super easy
with github and super complicated with the current (lack of) solution.

I plan to work on wiki a little and then I'll announce the news (incl. the
existence of this ML) to all previous MiNT ML subscribers, I've managed to
harvest all 1011 email addresses (but real user count is lower, everyone
seems to have 2-3 email addresses in average).

On 19 January 2017 at 21:34, mfro at mubf.de <mfro at mubf.de> wrote:

> Second that.
>
> Great initiative and perfect transformation!
>
> Thank you very much, Miro!
>
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2017 um 10:46 Uhr
> > Von: "Vincent Rivière" <vincent.riviere at freesbee.fr>
> > An: freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org
> > Betreff: Re: [Freemint-list] FreeMiNT for 21st century
> >
> > On 19/01/2017 06:51, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> > > In the end, the result is not too bad:
> > > https://github.com/freemint/freemint/wiki, even history is preserved
> (I
> > > mean the original one, from sparemint).
> >
> > Hey, great work :-)
> > This really incites to improve the documentation in the wiki.
> >
>
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