License

My version of redo was written without ever seeing redo code by Bernstein or Grosskurth, so I own the entire copyright. It's distributed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0, which you can find in the file called LICENSE. (Previous versions of redo were distributed under the GNU LGPL, but this changed in 2018.)

minimal/do is in the public domain so that it's as easy as possible to include inside your own projects, to help end users who don't have a copy of redo.

How can I help?

Nowadays, redo is good enough for real production use, and some people are using it for real work. That said, it has not reached version 1.0 and there are surely still bugs.

If you run into a problem, it's really helpful if you report it to the mailing list below (with or without subscribing first). We really want to know if redo is acting weird for you. Even if the problem turns out to be operator error, we can use that information to try to improve this documentation.

Small feature additions are also welcome, but you might want to ask on the mailing list before you start working on it. The code is still evolving and might not be the same by the time you submit your pull request.

The best things you can do for redo are:

  • Convert your projects to using it. Without users, no project is successful.

  • Build new infrastructure around redo, especially things to make it easier for people to get started. For example, an automake-like tool that filled in default redo build rules for common program types would probably be very popular.

  • Convince your favourite OS distro to build and include (up to date!) redo packages.

  • Help proofreading this documentation, and send patches or pull requests with improvements.

  • Join the mailing list (below) to discuss design changes or bugs.

  • Tell your friends!

Mailing list

You should join the redo-list@googlegroups.com mailing list.

You can find the mailing list archives here: http://groups.google.com/group/redo-list

It might not look like it, but you can subscribe without having a Google Account. Just send a message to redo-list+subscribe@googlegroups.com (note the plus sign).

It's okay to send a message directly to the mailing list without subscribing first. If you reply to someone who writes to the list, please leave them in the cc: list, since if they haven't subscribed, they won't get your reply otherwise.