Hi DaleDe,
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
This is great interaction and development. I wonder if the dev hub available here would be better for the purpose.
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Interesting idea. Paul and I hosted a code.google.com site for mobiunpack.py but we received almost no contributions or input over the years. Siebert was the first new developer to come on and he found the source on this site (not our code.google.com dev site) and after his extensive changes he added his own git site.
Based on similar experiences from other small (couple of files only) dev projects, it appears to me that using development specific hosting with its own hurdle of concurrent versioning tool (git vs svn vs mercurial vs cvs vs rcs, etc.) and the lack of visits by users who might have an "itch to scratch" simply lowers contributions.
I think the same thing happens with users of both Sigil and Calibre. They are constantly pointed to other official sites but most of the impetus for change is done or initiated via MR.
So unless we are disrupting things with our posts, I would prefer to keep things here just to maximize our exposure to new users (and hopefully potential developers) who might want to contribute a new feature or quick fix.
My 2 cents ...
KevinH