Should we unify our efforts?

[skuro]

Hi,

I'm the maintainer of puml-mode, yet another fork of your original work. I see that development is active on both our projects and there's no apparent reason to keep the codebases separate, while the plantuml-mode project downloadable from MELPA isn't receiving any commit since more than 2 years ago.

It would be better, in my opinion, if we concentrated our efforts in a single place. I'd like discuss here with you how to make this happen, having one single authoritative plantuml-mode package in the Emacs ecosystem.

To start off, here's my current point of view on the subject:

• we should choose one single repo in which to jointly continue development
• we should select and merge the features available in both codebases
• I have no particular interest into which one we choose, who's the maintainer, etc.
• features which are IMHO unique to puml-mode are better docs, MELPA integration, SVG / PNG preview

Looking forward to hearing your opinion on the subject.

[pwojnowski]

Great idea!
@zwz and @skuro please join into one project, so that others could contribute too. Now it is very confusing. Thank you!

[nicbet]

+1

[zwz]

@skuro
I totally agree with you.
I was busy for last several months, and I think it is better you be the maintainer.
However, the name "plantuml-mode" is clearer.
What do you think?

[skuro]

@zwz, fine with me, and I actually totally agree with you. I changed name just not to collide with your project, but plantuml-mode is the only one that makes sense.

To proceed with the merge, I will need to look at the codebases and spot differences and how to merge them.

We also need to figure out how to manage the melpa side of things and update the recipe.

Stay tuned..

[skuro]

I created a new issue and a new branch to track the merge efforts. Feel free to contribute!

For the time being, I'll just close the issue here.