On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 04:06 -0600, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > Hello guys, > > This mail is to announce some of the role changes in the Evolution project. I > have been thinking about this for a long time, and I feel that this is the > best time to implement them. > > I am proud to announce Chenthill P (chen) as the new Evolution maintainer. He > is a long time contributor to the Evolution project and has been working in > the project for over 5 years. He is well known in the community for his > expertise in Calendar component and has been its maintainer for the last 4 > years. He has been one of the prime contributors for the Groupwise provider > and Microsoft Exchange Calendar. A few of his notable contributions include > libical integration with System timezone for better Daylight savings support, > single-model-view design of Calendar MVC and removal of libical fork. He > has mentored interns and GSOC students on Calendar search improvements, > Microsoft Exchange Delegation support, Google Calendar integration etc. > > I am also proud to announce that Matthew Barnes (mbarnes) is joining > Chenthill and support him as the Evolution co-maintainer. He has been > contributing towards Evolution for over 3 years and is the Mail maintainer > for the last 2 years. He has made significant contributions towards > obsoleting several libraries, and helping to migrate to newer technologies. > He has been working on Kill-Bonobo which is a major revamp of Evolution > Shell. This involves rewriting Evolution components and UI which is a focus > area for Evolution 3.0. > > Going forward, I will be focusing on improving evolution infrastructure for > netbooks and other devices; chen and mbarnes would be driving the Evolution > project direction and releases. > > Please join me in congratulating chen and mbarnes, and in wishing them good > luck in their new roles. > Congratulations Chenthill and Matthew. Big thanks to Srini and all the contributors/team members for the consistent and dedicated efforts for Evolution.
I'm confident that the trio will better their predecessors in keeping Evolution as one of the best mailers around. :-) V. Varadhan _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers