Hello all,<br><br>As the summer draws closer and closer, we might have more time to invest into things that we are passionate about. Yes, I'm not talking about simply watching movies at the theater or catching some waves at the beach. I'm talking about those long and hard hours that you spend in from of a computer coding because "it's there". I want to let you all know that Splashy wants your fingers and toes for this summer! We need to move the project forward and get a few things out of our way. I'll be collecting those and making them public (either in the TODO or in our Wiki).
<br><br>As you might know, there has almost always been 3 project admins for Splashy on the Alioth project page. I talked to Jacobo a few months ago and he said that he was too busy to continue his role as project admin for Splashy. After many months waiting, I finally decided that Jacobo will be out for far too long and I open up the "project admin" bucket for somebody else. So, if you are up to the task, please let us know and Otavio and I will make a decision on this matter. I also don't see anything wrong in having 4 admins... So, if you feel moved and want to make a difference in the Open Source world, this is your chance.
<br><br>In a related news, I made a few people "Senior Developers" as they have seen the Splashy code mature over the years; in addition, they are always around in our #splashy channel, helping others and giving feedback during our meetings and other online activities. The Senior names stand at:
<br><br>Vincent Amouret - You would know him best for his wonderful work on splashy_config and the obscure branch of gsplashy<br>Tim Dijkstra - You would know him best for his re-structuring of the Splashy sources. Splitting them into the now mature libsplashy* and splashy* binaries; as well as introducing LSB functions to the calculation of steps for the progressbar.
<br><br>I would like to see others added to the project page. These are people who have contribute code to the project but who might not have Alioth accounts (as of this writing); they are:<br><br>Pat Suwalski - Xandros developer who has helped us a lot getting Splashy off-the-ground and hunting many bugs, the most important of which was the overlaying of double-layer text windows in Splashy's framebuffer. And many more, for which we are grateful (enlightening us on how initramfs affects libdirectfb for instance)
<br>Rudolf Kastl - (che666) Fedora Core developer who pursue the Splashy RPM during the early days of Splashy (still active)<br clear="all"><br>I guess you can use this email as a source of inspiration for simply joining the team and help us with whatever is easier or you feel will help the project best. That includes testing, debugging, reporting bugs, sending us your art, or simply backing us up whenever somebody bad-mouths the project somewhere else ;-)
<br><br>Thank you all. Your help is truly appreciated!<br><br>-- <br>----)(----- <br>Luis Mondesi<br><br>----- START ENCRYPTED BLOCK (Triple-ROT13) ------<br>Gur Hohagh [Yvahk] qvfgevohgvba oevatf gur fcvevg bs Hohagh gb gur fbsgjner jbeyq.
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