[Snowball-discuss] snowball maintenance, a review

[Richard Boulton]

On 22 February 2013 14:08, Grant Ingersoll <gsingers at apache.org> wrote:
> Would the project ever consider moving to the Apache Software Foundation?  I
> think you would find a lot of willing volunteers there who would help with
> sharing the load of answering questions and maintaining the code base.

Martin and I have discussed this in the past; I don't think moving
snowball to be an ASF project is something either of us are
particularly keen on; in particular, I don't think the Apache license
is suitable for snowball (particularly since some GPLv2 projects
depend on snowball), and I think the Apache structure is a little
overkill for a project like snowball, and might make it harder rather
than easier for (non-Apache) contributors.

However, I think github could be a very good way forward, and its easy
to try out, so I've created https://github.com/snowballstem , with
separate repositories for snowball, the test data and the website.

The projects there will automatically update from SVN (hourly, on cron
at present, but I'll move it to a more instant svn hook when I get
time), and I'll be happy to look at pull requests / issues on there.
If it works out, we could move to using that as a primary repository
in future, but there's no need to hurry that.

-- 
Richard