Re: [screen-devel] screen maintainer?

[Micah Cowan]

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David Douthitt wrote:
> Karl Berry wrote:
>> And otherwise, we're looking for a new maintainer.  So if you are
>> interested in taking care of screen going forward, please write me and
>> we can discuss.
>>   
> I'd be willing to pitch in, though I don't have a lot of time.  I'd like
> to work on documentation and on patching, bugfixing, and robustness.
> 
> Will this help?  I've already written a book on GNU screen; it would be
> nice to see it active again.

Any and all help is absolutely appreciated!

Regarding the documentation: are you familiar with the new vertical
split, and layout features? These are things that do not appear in the
documentation, but need to before a release can be made.

I also think it's worth starting discussions on consolidating the man
page and the texinfo manual, which are separately-maintained manuals on
GNU Screen, which translates to duplication of effort and opportunities
for conflicting documentation.

As you might expect, these new features have known issues that need
resolving, and probably further testing to discover the unknown issues.
:) You can see some helpful bug queries, in particular, the list of bugs
that I thought might be good to address for 4.1.0, at

  http://aperiodic.net/screen/bugtracker

(The priorities and version-targetting is currently based purely on my
own largely uninformed assessment, since I'm obviously quite new to the
Screen development team.)

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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