Monday March 10, 2008 New Chief Maintainer For Gcalctool
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I just announced this on the GNOME devel-announce-list mailing list. I'm not sure who that goes to, so I thought I'd announce it here too, so that at least readers of Planet GNOME will get to see it. |
Starting with GNOME 2.23, Robert Ancell will be taking over as the chief maintainer of gcalctool, the default calculator that comes with the GNOME distribution.
For GNOME 2.22, Robert did an excellent job of converting the gcalctool UI to use Glade, becoming intimately familiar with the code in the process. Since then he has continued to support gcalctool, and I thank him for his time and enthusiasm.
I know he has lots of great ideas for future work too.
I will still be around to make sure that the transition is as smooth as possible and to occasionally provide a bug fix or two.
The first version of this calculator was written in 1986. It's still out there on the net. It's come a long way since then. It's certainly more that 300 lines of code and 1/2 MB in size nowadays.
I'd like to thanks everybody who has helped make [g]calctool what it is today. See the AUTHORS file in the latest source distribution for a potted history.
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