Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNU Backgammon overview/background

[Jim Segrave]

On Wed 12 Nov 2003 (23:47 +0100), ?ystein Johansen wrote:
> Thomas Hauk wrote:
> >On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jim Segrave wrote:
> >
> >>I'm not actually sure naming me as a key member is quite accurate
> >>
> >>I suppose I'm suggesting my name be dropped from that list, since a
> >>fair list would begin to sound like an Oscar winner's acceptance
> >>speech. 
> >
> >
> >I took the list of names at
> >http://www.gnubg.org/team.shtml
> >that were along the top as "written by". I decided that would be the 
> >fairest thing to do, since it's you guys (the team) that decided who was 
> >principal contributors, and not myself. 8)
> 
> The team.shtml file includes a cgi script that parses the AUTHORS file 
> in the CVS. Jim, if you don't want to be on that list, you can just 
> remove your name from the AUTHORS list in cvs. (But I really think you 
> belong there.)

No, I'm proud to have my name there, but Thomas' paper was discussing
the creation of gnubg and (presumably) will be focusing on it's
playing and evaluation engine. Those are areas in which I can't claim to have
contributed much - the neural net and the analysis/play decision code
mostly predated anything I've done and are an area in which my
knowledge is not particularly deep - I understand the concepts but I'd
be very loath to attempt to modify or extend the code in those areas.

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden