[Developers] Status of lead developer?

[sshkeychain at boonstra.org]

Hi Bart (and all)


> For the past 2 years I've been trying to gather a group of developers
> to help on the project, but the development has stalled, sadly.
> ...
> What are your thoughts on the project, Brian?


Though I am not a pro developer, I can find my way around Cocoa by virtue
of having spent a couple years coding for OpenStep back in the 90's.  (You
may recall my work with SSHKeychain was to add simple interface and code
modifications to handle some of the more advanced port-forwarding
capabilities of newer ssh versions).  Clearly SSHKeychain has attracted
the attention of at least a couple other people capable of, at the least,
working around a minor bug and recompiling.

I would guess that there is little demand for new features on any kind of
accelerated schedule, so the reasonable options as I see them are:

 (1) Keep things more-or-less as they are in the expectation that you
[Bart] will be free (at some reasonably imminent date) to be more active,
but post a universal binary of the current stable branch with Brion's
patch -- both to eliminate the apparent neglect and to help out those
need it.

  (2) Start a more formal open-source project on sourceforge or somewhere
similar.  I would be willing to volunteer my meager skills to be one of
the developers, but I believe that your involvement would still be
essential at some point to keep things alive.  It may be possible to
find another developer or two, based on mailing list interest.  We would
at least need somebody who (unlike me) owns an Intel ac, for testing.


I don't have much of an opinion about which --  (1) or (2) -- should
happen.  SSHKeychain is too cool to lose to bit rot, so I'm willing to
help, but only if you want it.   You are a better judge of whether you
have the time and inclination to pursue option (1).  If you don't have one
or the other, option (2) is clearly the way to go.


   Best Regards,

      Brian