Hi,

[sorry if this is not the appropriate location for this message, but I know here are many Synapse users]

I see Synapse is still being developed on SourceForge.net, but the official website [http://synapse.ararat.cz/doku.php] shows the last release dated 2012.

Has the original author moved on to other things?

Is the SourceForge.net project a fork of the original? [http://sourceforge.net/projects/synalist/]

Regards,
- Graeme -

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Has the original author moved on to other things?

This is not confirmed information but inference:

Synapse's copyright holder (original author) is Lukas Gebauer whose Sourceforge alias is 'Geby'.

If you look at the trunk in SF, you'll see that all the changes are made by 'geby'.

The last one was made in 2015-02-15.

So, unless Lukas turned over his alias and password to someone else, I would think he is still working on Synapse.

http://sourceforge.net/p/synalist/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

No, I am on the synapse mailing list, he still answers questions and applies patches.

Michael.

ListMember wrote

So, unless Lukas turned over his alias and password to someone else, I would think he is still working on Synapse.

Thanks, I just cloned the whole history, and indeed the 'geby' user is still active with development. That is good news.

Regards,
- Graeme -

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

No, I am on the synapse mailing list, he still answers questions and applies patches.

Awesome, I'll probably jump onto that mailing list at some point.

Do you know if there is a reason why no "server based" components exist in Synapse? I have a HTTP Server written for Synapse (used in a branch of tiOPF), and about to start work on a NNTP Server too. Just wondered if such contributions would be accepted, or if there is some rule that only client components go into official Synapse repo.

Regards,
- Graeme -

I suspect that there are many ways to write good server components. This is less the case for client components, they are more simple.

Michael.