[Frogface-general] Frogface Mailing List and Latest Project News

[Declan M. <dec...@fr...>]

Hi there folks,

This is a (somewhat longwinded) email going out to all Frogface developers and 
those interested in joining Frogface to announce that a mailing list for the 
project has (finally!) been set up.

If you would like to join the list simply go the the following page

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/frogface-general

Apologies for any inconvenience if you did not wish to receive this 
invitation. Please let me know and I'll leave you alone :)

It is intended that pretty much all discussion of a collaborative nature 
should take place on this list but feel free to contact me privately via email 
if you want to - particularly in the early stages of this project. But going 
forward it will be a lot more fun for everyone to work on Frogface if we 
communicate through the list. Also, there may be some bounced email occurring 
with the list if mailing list or email aliases are misconfigured. Hopefully 
not though! Let me know if you have any problems and I'll do my best to 
rectify them ASAP.

For those you are interested, my current priorities with the project are

1.) Sorting out licensing issues of how to licence frogface (trying to get 
this right is a real pain). All the 'experts' are recommending to get some 
form of copyright assignment or joint copyright assignment from contributors 
but there doesn't seem to be many freely available examples of forms to use 
for this purpose.

2.) Entering bugs in Frogface project bug database on SourceForge (I have an 
existing list on my harddrive). This should be pretty straightforward and 
should be completed by next week.

3.) Deciding how to accept patches from ye guys and integrate them into the 
code base. Any advice on this is greatly appreciated.

Once I've gotten things organised I plan to take questions from ye on the code 
over the next while. I'm sure that there will be lots of questions or 
suggestions and I'd like to get ye 'up to speed' before I go rushing to code 
myself. Therefore actual development may proceed as a relaxed pace over the 
next month and then speed up as everyone becomes more comfortable with the 
project.

Finally, I'd just like to say that I've really enjoyed dealing with everyone 
thus far. I think we've got a great bunch of people here and I'm really 
looking forward to us cutting some code in this project!

All the best,
Dec