I am very sad to inform you that Christian Biere resigned from gtk-gnutella. The project is taking him more time than he has to offer, as far as I understand his reasons.
Christian is not only the one who engineered and maintained the GTK2 front-end: he also participated into improving the portability of gtk-gnutella to other platforms than Linux, fixed bugs, participated actively in code reviews and documentation updates. He was also actively monitoring the bugs / feature requests sections on sourceforge, asking people for more information and giving insightful comments. Something I was not really doing due to lack of time... Christian also produced the 0.92.1c release while I was on vacation. We shall miss Christian's contributions, deeply! At the same time we must understand such departures are inevitable. It happens in the companies we work for, but at least companies have the necessary resources to ensure a fair amount of redundancies in the competencies. The gtk-gnutella project has become a fairly big project, but it is understaffed. It will become more so now that Christian is leaving us. I hope it will be able to recover from the great loss. Along with Richard's semi-retirement, we now have a project without active GUI maintainers. Therefore, we need to find dedicated people with enough GUI experience to continue the work that Richard and Christian initiated and lead the way towards the ultimate separation of the core and the GUI. I think GUI separation is becoming strategic: at the same time, the Gnutella core of gtk-gnutella needs much work, but we have more core developers than we have GUI developers, currently. As a consequence, I'm considering about stopping working on the core completely and start thinking about ways to accelerate the separation of the GUI. Only this will ensure the viability of the GUI interfaces by lowering the entry barrier for GUI developers, shielding them completely from the complexity of the gtk-gnutella internals. We just need to find a convenient interfacing mechanism between the GUI and the core. In any case, let us wish that Christian's personal life will become more balanced the way he wants it to be now that he is no longer an active developer. Good bye Christian, and thank you for your numerous contributions! Raphael ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
