Okay thank you so much, now I have a option to formally start
contributing. Thanks for you're time man honestly helps out.
On 9/30/25 2:14 AM, W. Kosior wrote:
XBoard is not a good project to get started on GNU contributions. It is not
dead, but there is *very* little work being done on it or even on the to-do
list. And the current maintainers don't have time to mentor new folks who
have minimal coding experience -- no offense intended! You would do better
to find a very active project.
As to which GNU package is the most actively developed these days:
I think it could be GNU Guix [1]. While you might find it hard to
contribute with little programming experience, there is a high chance
you'll at least get some advice on IRC [3] or the help-guix [2] mailing
list.
[1]https://guix.gnu.org/
[2]https://guix.gnu.org/en/contact/irc/
[3]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-guix
Best!
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:38:53 -0700
Tim Mann<[email protected]> wrote:
Jesus, we aren't looking for co-maintainers anymore. Sorry we didn't get
that listing removed.
XBoard is not a good project to get started on GNU contributions. It is not
dead, but there is *very* little work being done on it or even on the to-do
list. And the current maintainers don't have time to mentor new folks who
have minimal coding experience -- no offense intended! You would do better
to find a very active project.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM W. Kosior<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Jesus!
I've been a GNU/Linux user for about 2 years. I've always loved the GNU
project and I've always wanted to contribute to it, So I decided to take
a look at the GNU Website to find any unmaintained software or any that
need assistance and I found xboard. I have minimal coding experience but
I am willing to learn. I am also looking to improve my hands on
experience with technology and programming as a whole. So I would be
glad to help out with this project.
Thank you for your reaching out. You can consider joining the
bug-xboard [1] and xboard-devel [2] mailing lists. I am now also
CC-ing the latter to let current maintainers know that you volunteer to
help.
[1]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
[2]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xboard-devel
Best!
Wojtek
PS. Sorry for the late reply -- I was preparing for a thesis defence
when you wrote and had an international trip afterwards.
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:53:56 -0500
Jesus Quinones<[email protected]> wrote:
I've been a GNU/Linux user for about 2 years. I've always loved the GNU
project and I've always wanted to contribute to it, So I decided to take
a look at the GNU Website to find any unmaintained software or any that
need assistance and I found xboard. I have minimal coding experience but
I am willing to learn. I am also looking to improve my hands on
experience with technology and programming as a whole. So I would be
glad to help out with this project.
