(Artemis) Open source considerations

[misfire]

Well, that would be a huge task.

Anyway, I'll leave it as it is for now and continue coding.

[misfire]

Fair enough; reimplement all of the useful pieces of PS2SDK and then they can shove that AFL up their asses.

By the way, I set up a Mercurial mirror of the PS2SDK sources at https://bitbucket.org/misfire/ps2sdk/.

At least one person at ps2dev.org is worried that this encourages forks: http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12381

[misfire]

Repo layout

I thought a bit about Artemis and the current development situation. In my opinion the current repository layout is a complete mess and should be revised from scratch.

In total, there're three repositories:
https://artemis.bountysource.com/ - svn community repo, for bounties
https://bitbucket.org/artemis/artemis/ - hg community repo
https://bitbucket.org/misfire/artemis/ - my dev branch aka artemis-next

First of all, I'd like to rename my development branch to ps2rd and make it a project of its own (though still a part of Artemis). Not only would the new name reflect what Jimmi and I want it (artemis-next) to be - a remote debugger -, it'd also stop the arguing about what "Artemis" really is and will be. The name would rather stand for a collection of tools to hack/debug PS2 games, with ps2rd, ps2cc, etc. being parts of it.

For this, I suggest to create one hg repository for each (sub-)project, e.g.:
https://bitbucket.org/artemis/ps2rd/
https://bitbucket.org/artemis/ps2cc/
https://bitbucket.org/artemis/testing/
https://bitbucket.org/artemis/agui/
https://bitbucket.org/artemis/whatever/

The maintainer/author of each sub-project gets exclusive admin access to her/his repository and can decide what to do with it. This layout would also benefit development with Mercurial.


I intentionally made this is a public discussion. There's been too much private talk lately.

[Lazy Bastard]

That's a great idea, and it would allow us to consolidate considerably. We should still keep the BountySource account for bounties down the road, of course.

[misfire]

What do the developers say? Viper, is it okay for you to maintain a hg repo for ps2cc? And Jimmi, any objections?

[jimmikaelkael]

I have no objections, this sounds fine to me.

[misfire]

Ok, then I'll rename it to ps2rd asap. Tag 0.4.1 is definitely the last "Artemis tag".

[misfire]

Renaming to ps2rd is done, though I'm still not sure about the final repo layout.

I also created artemis/ps2cc for Viper.

What about artemis/artemis? I think we should delete/reset it. It's broken anyway.

[Lazy Bastard]

Yeah, artemis/artemis is no longer useful, and I've got backups of everything there. Feel free to smash it.

[Lazy Bastard]

Are you still toying with the structure? ps2rd was deleted and never re-added...

[misfire]

As said in the other thread, I'm taking a break from the project.

I'll give you the account password for bitbucket.org/artemis and you can continue maintaining it.

[Lazy Bastard]

Ah, I just read that. Sad to see you go, and I hope to see you back in the future. You can PM me the information, or email it.

We'll keep you updated on any major progress/etc, and possibly ask you questions as required