A new home for terminator #1
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Just a few words of support here :) I have been using terminator for a long time and I still love it. I also am a Python developer and have been watching the porting efforts for a while now. That said I don't feel I have enough time to become a proper maintainer unfortunately which is why I never volunteered to become one but I might be able to help with smaller things here and there and I definitely will report any issues found wherever the new active upstream ends up living. |
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@geckon Welcome, any help is welcome, we all have these problems... |
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+1 from me for keeping Terminator alive and well. As @geckon I might not have enough time (and coding knowledge) to be real maintainer, but if there are smaller tasks I can offer help. Terminator is well worth the effort. And by the way: Thank you for keeping it alive. |
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Happy to hear Terminator project is still alive as its my favorite terminal emulator :) Looking forward to the updates and I'm hoping I'll have time to get involved with the project myself. |
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Even if my Python knowledge has potential for improvements, I'd like to join the team. Usually I'm building the Fedora packages together with Matt, but currently I'm a bit challenged because of the health conditions of my father. Thanks to Matt the Fedora package seems quite in a good shape in the meanwhile. I'd love to see Terminator alive and I promise to give always as much as I can. :-) |
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If you are opening issues here that were already on Launchpad, make sure to link between GitHub and Launchpad in both directions! |
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Hi, I'm the maintainer of terminator on Arch Linux. We have plans to drop python2 completely soon from Arch. I know @JAugusto42 fork and have been encouraging him with his python2 -> 3 efforts. I think it's great there's an effort to keep this project going. I want to switch the Arch Linux package to this, but for that I need a tagged release. Are there any plans to make a release in the near future? Thanks in advance. |
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Hello @grazzolini , so as far as I know, @lazyfrosch is planning a release soon, we still have some adjustments that we want to make, however due to the lack of time it's a little complicated. |
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Indeed, currently master doesn't run on Python 2.7 anymore, not sure if we should support it for the time being. I mainly want to make sure that metadata, and basic tests are in place, so that we at least test the compilation and dependencies. Btw. I want to make a small website on gnome-terminator.github.io, if someone could contribute a bit of HTML and CSS... |
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Thanks so much, I am a big fan of Terminator and have been for years. |
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@mckellyln this is usually handled by setuptools, but not in this weird usage we are having here, ~~see #8 ~~ Setuptools normally set the shebang on installation, I will take of this soonish |
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I think we can wait a bit for a release. But, for example, that new vte version that broke the links, I think is the most pressing issue. I might backport a patch for this, but a point release with the "old" code here would be helpful. |
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@grazzolini This has already been resolved at the master. |
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Yes, I'm aware. But I would need to backport it as a patch and apply to the current release on the package. Whereas if a point release is made here, I can simply switch the source to here. |
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I just published the first release here: 1.92 Please help test, spread the news, and talk to your distribution if they would switch to our code base here. |
I'm a loyal user of terminator on the arch Linux platform. I'm pity that it stopped updating for a long time. Thank you for your contribution. I'm looking forward to the update. |
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Yes, I also use it on arch linux and I am very happy with the possibility of keeping the terminator updated. We are going to improve a lot. |
I have updated the terminator version on Arch Linux. Thanks for making a release. One small note is, your key seems to be expired @lazyfrosch. I have verified things manually and also by using keybase, but it would be nice if you had a non expired key, just saying. |
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@grazzolini My current subkeys are due for extension, but still valid until I guess Keybase is the problem here, I update the normal keyservers, as you can see here: http://pgp.zdv.uni-mainz.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x9A358BAB04A4ED27
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Don't worry. I've updated the key from a key server and all is good here. |
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Maybe now team M$/Windows-Terminal will get some inspiration and stop (re)inventing terminator features the wrong way ;) |
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Although many said it already, I am really grateful that someone keeps terminator alive, as it is my only terminal emulator, so matter which Linux I am on. Bis shout out thanks @lazyfrosch! This is not only a thank you though: I am nowhere near being a developer, but my English is quite okay I think so I would love to help by porting issues from launchpad. My question is: Is you goal to have all issues from launchpad here or would I need development background to find the interesting issues? I don't want to spam the issues here. |
Another big shoutout thanks @lazyfrosch & all, what a good news to read ! |
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I used Terminator for years on Slackware and now use it for WSL (1) on my Windows work machine. It's a great project and is a much better fit for how I work than ConEmu, which is nice but massive and the settings feel labrynthine. @lazyfrosch You mentioned something about starting up a site for it. I am a middling dolt with HTML and CSS but can muddle through and have made my way around a variety of Jekyll themes. Do you have particular ends in mind or something basic? Happy to help. I'd really like to be able to work on the project myself, though it'll be a steep learning curve. |
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Count me in! |
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is there a snap package for it or Solus port? |
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I am a heavy user of Terminator since I discovered it in 2014. I didn't realize it was in so much jeopardy. Sadly, I am not that strong a programmer. But I am a great administrator and can help with English documentation, if you need it. I have been waiting to attach onto an open source project for a while now, since it's been assuring me a decent job since the 90s. Time to give back to the community. |
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@lazyfrosch have you ever think about changing the name? Arnold was the last Terminator! |
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@sky-and-sand There is and will not be a snap, it doesn't make sense, since a terminal emulator should give you access to your local system, not a container with just your home directory. |
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@b00f Why should I change the name if it is well known to many users? There is nothing offensive to the name... |
I would argue it is quite the opposite. It is a nice little play on words while also giving a hint on the power of this tool. To me the name is quite the best one imaginable. And as you said: It is well known. @b00f: I seem to reckon a joke from you, so don't get this wrong, but I am quite sure there will be little to now support for changing the name. |
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Kudos for the effort 🥇 . |
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Welcome, personally I tend to be on https://gitter.im/gnome-terminator/community a lot. |
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I created Wikipedia page, feel free to contribute. |
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Hey @lazyfrosch, sorry for reaching out on this ticket for this matter. I was wondering if there was any chances to get the latest version of terminator on Debian buster-backports ? The upstream version is not yet present on Salsa, and was wondering of something was blocking this process ? |
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@jooola thanks for reaching out, I wanted to bring terminator to bullseye anyways and just uploaded 2.0.1 to unstable. Once this reached testing I will work on uploading a backport. As usual, blocking point always is time and energy. |
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Since this is a pretty old topic, which only is merely a documentation of what happended, I'm going to close this issues. Feel free to open new issues. |
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@lazyfrosch - long-time Terminator user - just discovered your fork - THANK YOU |
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Like others I am a long time Terminator user and after seeing some fancy things like fig and warp in my feeds I thought I would find if I could contribute new features to Terminator. Can promise I will be a contributor but I am a big time fan of the split screen and broadcast ability. Glad to have found the fork. 🚀 👍 |
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Sadly the old team of Terminator have given up maintaining the project, there hasn't been any activity on Launchpad for years now.
As a user and the current maintainer of the package in Debian I have great interest in keeping the project alive.
This GitHub organization will be the new home for Terminator.
If you have contributed to terminator in the past, or are only a user who would like to contribute.
This organization on GitHub was started to give Terminator a new home, I think many user are still using it, and want to keep it.
Any help is appreciated!
Also see:
Catching up with the old team
If you have any contact or relation to the "old" maintainers of Terminator, please contact me or them to get in touch.
We need to make this proper, and inform the users. At the moment I don't have any access to the Launchpad projects apart from filing and commenting on bugs.
How can you help?
Or: Any other way you can think of!
Joining the team
I want people to join this team, to help bringing Terminator to a better shape.
If you were a contributor to Terminator and I found your GitHub account, you should have received an invite!
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