Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add pybitmessage, [PATCH] gnu: Add python2-pyqt-4, [PAT

[Peter Šurda]

Hello,

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 04:41:31PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> I don't really feel part of this conversation, but since you keep CC'ing
> me I have to reply.
I keep CCing you because I don't know if my messages will make it into
the list, and I don't know who is doing what.

> > https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Compiling_instructions#Resolve_dependencies
> This is not accesible from behind restrictive proxies and networks like
> tor, so I have to pass on this.
There is at the moment a snapshot mirror available for testing new web
infrastructure with the goal to improve the experience. I manually
copied over the Guix instructions so that you can view those too:

https://test.bitmessage.org/wiki/Compiling_instructions#Resolve_dependencies

> I did the initial packaging of PyBitmessage on GuixSD but there is no
> maintainer per package, whoever wants to update can update it.
Ok.

> Since all my questions, improvements, and attempts to contribute have
> been blocked and/or forgotten by the PyBitmessage project I don't want
> to have this discussion in my inbox longer than necessary.
I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm now doing most of the work and have to
balance between the various aspects of the whole project of which coding
is just one part. I cannot reprioritise based on or even track the
communication of a single user. I need to think about the bigger picture
and whole community. I just bought a 3400 EUR server for VMs so that I
can test the PyBitmessage on the zillions of OS variants around there. I
monitor the web so that I can react to bug reports no matter when they
appear.

The project now has clear(er) contribution guidelines:

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Contribute

or on the test mirror:

https://test.bitmessage.org/wiki/Contribute

and you can get paid in Bitcoin for providing commits that get merged.

Translations have been integrated with transifex and a webhook will
automatically create a pull request when a language is complete. All
commits are PGP signed.

The current cycle focused on bugfixes and refactoring of some horrible
parts. There are also some minor but nice usability improvements that
are particularly important for beginners.

Extended encoding is available for experimenting and is written in a
developer-friendly way. The project registered #bitmessage on freenode
and the website will be migrated to better infrastructuer after 0.6.2
comes out.

> LibreSSL support is at least one improvement I welcome.  Any news on
> the use of setuptools, and the move to PyQt5?
PyQt5 is not a priority. It may be better to have separate projects for
a library written in C, and a GUI written in, perhaps, PyQt5. But I
don't have time for it, maybe if I can raise funds and pay someone to do
that while I focus on the bugfixes and protocol.

I'll look at setuptools in the current cycle (i.e. in the next week or
two).

> ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/

--
Peter Šurda
Bitmessage core developer