On 10/10/07, Alex Waite awaite2@uiuc.edu wrote:
I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm potentially willing to write the WWN. I've been reading all of patches, devel, and bugs for about a year now, so I keep pretty up to date with what's going on. I'm a Senior at UIUC and my major is History, so I write quite often. Let me know if you're interested.
I've been kind of quiet on the whole topic and not really advertised for someone else to take it over. I think a big part of that is I thought my schedule would eventually slow down and I could pick it back up again. Well, it's been a year and I don't see that happening any time soon. For the curious, I moved 600 miles away to Montana, new house, new job, etc. We're busy building a new playground ( http://www.theshell.com/~vinn/moonlightbasin-lonepeak2.jpg ).
I can definitely lend assistance to someone taking this over. Here's what I could help with: - Initial guidance about setting up WWN issues and how to tackle writing them. - Some scripts for stats. - Pointing out which threads to cover. That can kind of be a challenge for a while when getting into this. It's hard to pick out the important stuff and which stuff should be ignored. - Co-authoring for a bit. The process is actually set up pretty well to allow for multiple collaborators.
Oh, and I'm going to be on vacation for 3 weeks starting next Monday, so I'm mostly useless until November.
Alex - I think you have the perfect set of skills for this. When I started I hadn't read any of the mailing lists, so you've got a leg up on that.
-Brian