Tom Martin

I recently brought two new developers on board: Joe Sapp, A.K.A. nixphoeni (gdesklets) and Jory Pratt A.K.A. anarchy (qmail/vpopmail). Both seem to be settling in well.

I've bumped mail-mta/msmtp to 1.4.0. I think I'm the luckiest maintainer in the world with the package's upstream, a chap called Martin Lambers, who:

• Autotools his packages properly
• Announces releases on sourceforge and freshmeat in particular so I can track them easily
• Uses Gentoo
• Is active on the bugzilla
• Is a nice guy and easily approachable over email
• Writes good software (features, portability, good code, etc.)

It makes things very easy for me, and takes a lot of the nasty bits out of maintaing packages. I've gotten Markus Rothe (corsair), who is a PPC64 developer, to keyword 1.4.0 ~ppc64 too. In the next release, I'm going to try and push the current version to stable on all architectures so I can purge all the horrible old ebuilds without mailwrapper support.

I've convinced Simon Stelling (blubb) to add gtk-engines to emul-linux-x86-gtklibs. This means that anyone using the multilibbed GTK+ applications (the latest acroread, firefox-bin etc.) will not have to endure warnings about missing GTK+ theme engine modules on the command line, so long as they are using a GTK+ theme that uses an engine shipped with GNOME. Also, these programs will look a hell of a lot better.

Other than what I've mentioned, I haven't really done much. I've been enjoying winding down from school this Easter holiday. Back on Monday though.