Sounds good -- I'll follow up with you off-list. Dave
On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 1:52 PM Tim Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>>
