DC> Could you please provide a brief summary of each of these folks' DC> Fidonet software development contributions? I ask that because DC> based on #5's raging hard-on for that qualification in others, it DC> seems only fair to "vett" them all by that standard, right?
I can provide that myself. The primary answer is HPT (and the Husky project in whole), others are binkd and golded.
My first commit to hpt was
commit 2f5ea9abb991bb20d66c3a7c6c9cf873a0c0ddc7 Author: Gremlin from Kremlin <grsf ПРИ users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu Jul 2 08:06:14 2009 +0000 Added .spec files for RPM automated build
Two most significant contributions were the addition of hub-based route rules generator (originally by (R.I.P.) Yury Safronov) with built-in hpt support:
commit c676e40ec614d02d7bf627816397ba32f075ce1e Author: Gremlin from Kremlin <grsf ПРИ users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed Dec 30 20:33:21 2009 +0000 incorporated "fidoroute" (former "safrouter") tool
and the support for a multi-homed installation with reduced privileges:
commit b26d6ab6727ea9994c77e443e50b272127159bff Author: Gremlin from Kremlin <grsf ПРИ users.sourceforge.net> Date: Wed Sep 23 11:00:19 2009 +0000 add -c config.file option
commit 178c2f7fe18967e43ad33212493fd95a1b214407 Author: Gremlin from Kremlin <grsf ПРИ users.sourceforge.net> Date: Mon Apr 12 06:34:24 2010 +0000 fixed RPM building as non-root user
etc.
However, I've resigned FTSC (didn't go for the next term once the previous had expired) and don't see any reasons to return - at least until it will become T again.
-- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii
