[gnugo-devel] Re: cgoban1 maintainership

[Teun Burgers]

Dear Kevin,

Kevin Sonney wrote:

> Teun -
> 
> I've asked William if I might take over as maintainer for
> cgoban1. As he has accepted, I thought it best to contact
> you directly before blindly committing. fixes/patches/updates. *grin*

Thanks for carrying on the torch!

> What I'm hoping is that you'll continue to work on the
> automake/autoconf stuff.

No problem. I will be happy to help you there.
I would like to upgrade the autoconf and automake files to make them
compatible with more recent versions of the autotools. I did this
already,
but then downgraded again as Bill was still working with the now
somewhat
outdated autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4. You can find some outcommented
lines in configure.in for autoconf 2.5x.

> I'm hoping to start unifying the various patches out there for .12/.13, and 
> producing
> ready-to-install packages for at least the major Linux
> distributions in the near future.
> 
> After that, where do you see cgoban1 going after a .13 (or
> .14) final bugfix release? Any new features? I'm open to
> suggestions.

My participation arose from porting to cgoban to cygwin. It
is available there as a standard package. autotooling the package
made packaging for cygwin a lot easier as cygwin has some tools
to assist in package that assume an autotooled distribution.

My interest in cgoban is there because it provides a good GUI
to the Gnu Go program (www.fsf.org/software/gnugo) which I help
developing a bit
from time to time. In that respect I am happy with cgoban as it
currently is.

> Also, I'm more in favor of mailing lists over web forums -
> do you have a preference?

Gnu Go has a list at mail.gnu.org. This was mirrored for some time
at www.gmane.org. I liked this combination a lot.

> Thanks for your time and hard work!

I cc-ed the Gnu Go devel list as some people there may have some good
ideas.

regards,

looking forward to a new period of progress for cgoban1,

Teun Burgers