Last week Peter Graves (the original author of ABCL) mailed me that he isn't able to hold the maintainers position for ABCL. Therefore, he offered me the commit bit (and maintainers role). See also the mail at the end of this one. I'd like to use the opportunity to thank Peter for getting ABCL into existance, maintaining it for a long time already. At the same time, I'd like to thank him for the trust he's giving me with the project. Since I've been set up correctly to maintain the project here on SF last week, I guess it's time to outline how I view the project and my new role. The project has been - at least from what I've seen from it - pretty much a one-man show. Even more reason to applaud Peter. Looking at my own availability, I won't be able to deliver the same amount of resources to the project. That does not necessarily mean a slow down on development speed, however: I'd like the project to be a group effort where we can all enjoy the efforts of others and others can benefit from ours. What does that mean? Mainly: * It means that I'd like a maintenance team to grow around ABCL in due course. * Reporting bugs is still fine, of course, but if it goes with a patch: you have a higher chance of the resolution to be applied. Next to that: I read this list on a daily basis (European timezones), so answers should be available within reasonable time lines. Do you have a reaction to this mail? Comments? Suggestions? Objection? Please respond! Bye, Erik. Why did I only talk about ABCL in the above? Well, to be honest: I'm really interested in ABCL and very little in J. Are you interested in J? Step up and join the team! ======================================================= > On 8/5/08, Peter Graves <peter@...> wrote: > > Would you like to become an ABCL committer? If so, let me know your > > SourceForge identity and I'll make it happen. > > I'm honored. Thanks :-) > > I'd like to be one, yes. I used to have an SF account, but I just > opened one for ABCL and further committership. It's 'ehuelsmann'. You're there. Have fun! > Before you completely leave the scene however, I've sent in some > changes which you solved completely differently. Obviously, that was > because of your thorough understanding of the program vs my limited > one. Do you have a general description of the architecture of ABCL so > I can develop in light of the original design? Unfortunately I don't have such a general description, and I'm not in a position to write one now. I trust your judgement! On a brighter note, I'm not really going anywhere; I just don't have the time or spare mental capacity to work on ABCL (or XCL) right now. That might change in the future (but don't count on it). You should be able to reach me via direct email if you need anything. Thanks for all your help! -Peter