Subj : Not nominations!
To   : Dan Clough
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Tue Feb 15 2022 11:50 am

Good ${greeting_time}, Dan!

14 Feb 2022 10:26:00, you wrote to Bj�rn Felten:

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 ��� 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 ��� 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 ��� users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Wed Sep 23 11:00:19 2009 +0000
   add -c config.file option

commit 178c2f7fe18967e43ad33212493fd95a1b214407
Author: Gremlin from Kremlin <grsf ��� 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.


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