Re: GTK Port and XBoard contribution

[Simon Scatton]

Hello,

Thank you for responding to my previous message.

> I think at the moment there is nothing going on in regards to
> development (last commit is almost 2 years ago). If you want to
> contribute code I would say go for it ;)

That’s cool ! I think I will try to get my head into the codebase since I think 
it’s a good way to start learning on GNU projects.

> It would be great to see updates to newer GTK versions and better
> integration across platforms or features you want to add.

I’m planning on using the latests versions of GTK. GTK4 was released about 2 
weeks ago and it is really a nice piece of work. Merging both Microsoft Windows 
and GNU/Linux projects would be really nice.

> There is currently also no project admin that could do a release, etc.
> So that would be another job that is open. I can probably help a tiny
> bit with this, but I don't really have time to work on xboard anymore.

I can see myself trying to learn how to manage such project, and even maintain 
the XBoard project if you can give me some guidelines on how to do that, we 
maybe I could do this ?

> As far as contributing goes, there is some paperwork that needs to be
> filled out with GNU projects in regards to code-contributions. Would
> have to look up how that works again.

I have no idea on what paperwork needs to be filled. I’ll look this up.

> Happy holidays! :)

Happy Holidays to you too!

I’ve also seen that the Winboard community is quite active, I’ll ask around on 
the forum to see if anyone is interested in “revamping” XBoard.

Thank you for your response and your time.

Cheers


Simon Scatton

PS: Sorry for the blank email I sent you, it seems my inbox has gone crazy or I 
simply just miss-clicked the email. Please ignore my previous email to your 
personal mailbox.