Developer/CPW Roll call Results (better late then never)

Gary Kramlich grim at reaperworld.com
Thu Feb 4 10:32:10 EST 2016


On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Jorge VillaseƱor <salinasv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Everyone,
>
>
> Nice, thanks for gathering some data about our community.
>
>>
>> Finally, this project just celebrated its 18th birthday
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>
> When exactly is the birthday? I never thought about that and never asked.

Wikipedia lists the first archived release as 19981231.  I'm not sure
anyone aside from Mark Spencer knows the day he started it :)

>>
>> and, as you may imagine, it has accumulated an enormous amount of
>> technical debt that is a huge barrier to entry for newcomers to the code
>> base.
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>
> We have identified a couple of items, specially on the network management
> side. It would be nice if we have some list of what people think we should
> cleanup.

Yes, this should maybe be a wiki page for discussion that'll be
converted into tickets/a GSoC project later.

>> Happy Hacking,
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>
> --
> Masca
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> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?



Thanks,

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Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>



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