Re: contributing to XBoard/Winboard

[Dave Gomboc]

Sounds good -- I'll follow up with you off-list.

Dave

On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 1:52 PM Tim Mann <tim@tim-mann.org> 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 <tim@tim-mann.org> 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 <dave.gomboc@gmail.com> 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
>>>