New release? Or is this project unmaintained?

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New release? Or is this project unmaintained?

bertvandepoel opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

It has been nearly 7 years since a new release was made. I therefore thought this project was unmaintained (also judging by the website and screenshot, which looked a bit dated). However, it seems there were quite a few fairly recent commits, so that made me wonder what the status of the project is, and whether a release may come in the future at all or not.

Tom Hinkle · Answer 1 · Fri Apr 16 2021 19:48:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

There had been a bunch of outside interest in putting together a python3 version of the project, which I've supported, but I don't think that work is complete. I've turned my attentions to a web-based version of the program, which is currently functional for me but definitely in beta. If you're interested in just having a functional recipe database and up for beta testing, I'd be happy to have you as an early user of my web-based software. Tom

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Bert Van de Poel · Answer 2 · Fri Apr 16 2021 20:12:48 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the really quick response. Great to hear that there's some continuation activity happening both by you and the community. Currently I'm quite literally going through the tens of recipe tools looking for what suits my needs. So I haven't really decided what features I want and how I would want to interact with the tool. I mostly just have way too many printed recipes with lots of notes on them, as well as lots of dishes I've created and perfected throughout the years, and sharing those recipes with friends ends up with me writing out a whole text on WhatsApp or pastebin or whatever, which really isn't ideal. So I'm not sure if I'm the user you're looking for for beta testing, but perhaps you could throw a message out there on Reddit or a mailing list perhaps?

Tim Holloway · Answer 3 · Tue Apr 27 2021 07:10:43 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This is encouraging news, since I've never considered anything but GRM for my recipe files and would have really hated to see it fade away. For the moment I've been running an AppImage and kludging the print parts.

A web interface would be welcome - I hacked up a basic voids-the-warranty webapp years ago that allows me to pull up recipes on mobile devices in the kitchen, but something a bit more polished would be great.

The more I deal with platforms like VB, Perl and Python, the more I appreciate Java, which for all its warts was designed not to erode with age. But a good Python3 port would be an excellent opportunity to tidy things up.

If we get to the point where building RPMs looks good, I'm still in.

kaba11 · Answer 4 · Sat May 01 2021 21:57:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I would be interested in helping.

Martin Pohlack · Answer 5 · Sat May 01 2021 23:21:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have a few pull requests outstanding for quite some time. Does it make sense to rebase them against some other branch or is the non-web program dead?

wojtech2 · Answer 6 · Sat May 08 2021 22:25:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi I can help with testing if you want.

snden · Answer 7 · Thu Jun 10 2021 15:09:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It's a pity you want to quit the standalone version of the software. It will not be possible to use it without an internet connection, and some users may not want to store some recipes in a remote database.
As for the software improvement, it would help if the software was extended with a kitchen ingredients database in the home pantry. That is, what has been bought, what can be taken into recipes from the pantry of home stocks and what needs to be bought in addition. The pantry list would be useful not only for shopping for saved recipes, but in general, for any cooking and baking.

pcfyi · Answer 8 · Tue Jul 27 2021 22:57:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hello, Yes we are also interested in helping on this project.

need offline access
pdf print on release17.3 has problems.

Thank you

Michael Morami · Answer 9 · Wed Jul 28 2021 01:34:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm interested in helping with the offline app as well as the web version.
I think the web version is a good idea. I find it not as comfortable that I got to have my pc with me when cooking.

Many bugs on the version I use at the moment. So will I work for nothing if i start looking for issues i can work on? will it be integrated to the main branch?

Tom Hinkle · Answer 10 · Fri Jul 30 2021 03:51:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

MMorami, the web based version is really entirely separate. The author and many of the concepts are the same, but it's a totally new codebase. There's actually a fair bit of support for creating "progressive web apps" that can work offline, so the path to an offline app probably flows through the web as well as opposed to creating a totally separate app. The working version is actually available at www.gourmetrecipemanager.com if you want to play around with it. Showing my business savvy, lots of things work, but I login is actually pretty clunky etc. Right now you can log in through a single sign on or by creating an account -- it's done through a netlify service so I don't have to manage accounts at all. The login is a bit buggy (I often have to logout/login/refresh a few times when it's not working). Obviously if this was a working product, I'd want to make sure the new user/onboarding/login process was super smooth, but currently it's a hobby project, so I've made sure it actually works for my purpose (i.e. I can use it for my recipes on my phone and computer and share w/ my family). There's not a smooth export from Gourmet yet -- I have a python script I use to export a DB the web-based version can import that I can dig up and share if you're interested. While the login/create account/new user process is super janky, the app has lots of features I really like, like you can click on an ingredient and it highlights it in the text, and multiplication works, and timers, and shopping lists :) Tom

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Cyril Danilevski · Answer 11 · Fri Aug 20 2021 17:45:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

For the past year, we've been working on upgrading Gourmet to keep working on newer OSes with Python 3.

We've been open to upstream the changes.
However, Thomas is now taking Gourmet in a different direction, which, after close to 17 years, is understandable.

As such, I forked the project as Gourmand and a fresh release including all the work we've put in is available here.

Thank you again Thomas and all others for your work over the years!
Cyril

Tim Holloway · Answer 12 · Tue Jan 11 2022 23:29:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've mentioned it elsewhere, but I now have a fairly complete port of Gourmet as a web application that can be run either as a public website or on your own desktop. It's available as a Spring Boot application, so the only things you need are an executable copy of the webapp, a Gourmet database, and Java. Oracle Java 11 or OpenJDK should do.

You can use Maven as a "one-stop-shop" command to build the executable. No other tools required.

I've tried to make it as compatible with the original desktop application as possible and it uses the same database file format as the desktop system does.

I'd be interested in any and all feedback. You can see the online demo at https://gourmetj.mousetech.com/main.jsf The project source code is presently downloadable as a git archive from https://gogs.mousetech.com/mtsinc7/GourmetJ-Springboot