Looking for a new maintainer

[luzpaz]

FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons#202

Or is the plan to adopt @realthunder's Link implementation of PieMenu?
RT are you planning to port it back to master?

[mdkus]

Hi luzpaz,
why isn't the PieMenu addon further developed? There doesn't seem to be actual pull requests. Is it because of realthunders integrated PieMenu?

[luzpaz]

Because no one has taken on the reigns to become the maintainer after @triplus left. And there is a whole host of backlogged issues that realthunder's is working on to get merged in to FreeCAD master branch (piemenu being a low priority on that list).

[mdkus]

Ok, I'm ready to do the job. What do I have to do as maintainer? How can I become maintainer?

[luzpaz]

Cool!

Next step: you can fork this repository and start hacking on changes.

@chennes, myself and others will vet some of the work and if all goes well we'll point the Addon Manager to your forked repo.

[mdkus]

Ok, I forked the repository. I'll take triplus' roadmap to v2.0 as guideline for contributions.

[luzpaz]

You also may want to study @realthunder's PieMenu code on his branch? Have you used it before?

[mdkus]

Yes, I've tried it out. Looks great. I'll study the code and keep that in mind.

[mdkus]

Hi luzpaz,
Up to now I made 10 commits for a new version 1.1 of the pie menu. When do you plan to integrate the rep into the addon manager? By the way, can I become maintainer for triplus' glass module too?

[luzpaz]

@chennes care to weigh-in ?

[chennes]

Well, obviously from my point of view I'd like to see a package.xml metadata file... perhaps one made with the new Addon Manager Developer Mode tools? 😁

[mdkus]

Ok, I'll prepare a package metafile und commit it.

[mdkus]

Ok, I'm ready for integration into addon manager. Here the latest commit of the necessary metafile.

[chennes]

@luzpaz I think this looks good - make sure when you add it to the gitmodules file you note that the branch is "PieMenu2.0dev".

[luzpaz]

@mdkus can you change the name of the branch for uniformity sake (master or main) and also it's easier when I push changes to the FreeCAD-Addons repo ?

[mdkus]

Ok, I merged the branch with 'master' und set 'master' as 'default'. Then I deleted the branch 'PieMenu2.0dev'.

[luzpaz]

Done. Congrats @mdkus and thank you for stepping up. There are still remaining open issues in this repo, can you address them ? I can close them once they've been vetted.

[mdkus]

Yes, I'll vet the remaining open issues and address them.