p.s. The part of the process for adding someone as a contributor that I remember is that I need to get you to sign copyright papers, because xboard is an official GNU project. What I am supposed to ask you to do is documented here: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Papers
On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 1:30 PM Tim Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > The project is pretty dormant as far as I know. I haven't done anything on > it myself for ages. > > H. G. Muller has been by far the main coder on the project for many years. > He has his own web page at http://hgm.nubati.net/. I don't know if the > version on Savannah is up to date with all his work, and I don't know what > he's been doing on it lately. (HG, are you tuned in?) > > I'm not sure what happened to your request, Dave. Your name is familiar, > and looking back in my email I see we've interacted as far back as 2003. > I'd be glad to approve you as a project member on savannah -- for what > that's worth! I don't seem to have gotten any email about it or any kind of > notification on Savannah. I don't remember how the process of adding > someone to the group goes, and amazingly I can't find it in the savannah > documentation either. > > What I think the project needs most at the moment is someone to look into > the current state of the code, find out whether Savannah is up to date with > HG's work, do some testing, and make a numbered release version for distros > and such to pick up. Of course other contributions would be good too, but > probably they'll see few if any users if we don't roll out a release. > > As it happens, I started playing chess again a couple of years ago after > hardly playing for about 20 years. I've been playing on lichess.org, > which has a way better browser-based UI and features than xboard/WinBoard > ever did. So although I thought I might get back into using xboard, I never > did. > > Best regards! > Tim > > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 11:03 PM Dave Gomboc <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Long time occasional user here. I'd like to contribute to the code >> base. I put in a request for inclusion to the XBoard project on >> savannah.gnu.org a little while ago, though it seems to still be >> pending. What else do I need to do in order to be able to contribute? >> >> Dave >> >>
