Several people on this list have started to contribute to the new BBDB in one or the other way. I am quite happy to see that!
I'd like to outline my view / strategy for that: I'd be happy to see a proper release of the new BBDB in the not to far future. To make BBDB really free software, I'd be glad if everyone who has previously contributed to the code of BBDB (code which is still contained in the new BBDB) as well as future contributors will agree to assign the copyright for their contribution to the Free Software Foundation. Ted Zlatanov has kindly agreed to help collecting these copyright assignments. Honestly, right now we really do not yet have an overview who has contributed what to BBDB. The more we are able to unfold these things, we'll try to contact the respective people and request they assign the copyright for their work to the FSF (similarly for new contributors to BBDB). Those who have been contributing to GNU Emacs and have previously signed copyright assignments for that, these people need not sign new paperwork. Yet BBDB is not (yet?) part of GNU Emacs. So these people are asked to just email fsf-reco...@gnu.org, and tell them that their work on BBDB should be considered part of their Emacs assignment. On Mon Apr 11 2011 Didier Verna wrote: > For those of us who had write access to the old repo, is that > still the case ? While I simply have no idea who has had write access to the old repo, I'll be happy to give write access to the new repo on savannah to anyone who will contribute to BBDB and can agree to the above procedures (and I hope this will be everyone who considers contributing to the new BBDB). >From a more technical perspective, I've added a TODO file to the repo, which reflects my current view of what needs to be done. It would be great if anybody who wants to work on any of these things (or anything else related to BBDB) could let us know on this list. As usual, comments and suggestions are always welcome. Thanks again to everyone contributing to BBDB, Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
