New maintainers

[Mike Ciul <mike.ciul@gvox.com>]

Thank you Galen!

I think I can help put together a playable game. I'm starting to feel at home with parts of the xarchon code, and Rob's changes are nearly ready to go.

On the other hand, I know zero about CVS, and I still do a lot of fumbling around in Linux... I could use some help with dumb things like organizing different versions of the code on my local machine, keeping track of version numbers, and the proper way to use utilities like diff (I'm missing the man page for some reason!).

There's one more thing. I'm not sure I can upload anything right now (though I can use Netscape to send email). My Linux box is at work, behind an NT firewall. I haven't figured out how to get ftp to work with that. I think there's some problem with our nameserver too, but I don't know enough about networking to be sure.

I'm also way overcommitted right now, so I can't put in a lot of time.

Having said all that, I'd be happy to assist with maintenance to the best of my ability.

- Mike


>Hey guys,
>
>  Ronen has asked that I become the maintainer for this since I was the
>first one of the few who said they would and actually said yes.  Please
>bear with me as I am not a very good programmer and I need to study the
>code to get familiar with it.  I also need to study CVS and become
>familiar with it as well.  I would like to see some of the latest,
>greatest code available for this project, so if we can get a new,
>playable stable release and then go from there, that would be great.
>The guys at SEUL have set me up on their system and set up CVS for us,
>there is one glitch with some of the sym linked images that may or may
>not have transferred over very well.
>
>  I would also like for someone to do a new image set but that is not a
>necessity as having a playable game is more important.  I would
>appreciate if someone familiar with the code would volunteer to help me
>with maintainence, at least until I can follow on my own.  I know Rob
>was actually offered and turned down the maintainer job since he was
>very familiar with the code.  If he or Mike or both would like to assist
>in maintaining that would be great.
>
>  One of the first things I plan to do is to set up a cron job to create
>a tarball of the CVS versions of the code.  I was hoping to do that this
>weekend but I have to go out of town on business.
>
>=G=

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