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 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 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 Date: Wed Sep 23 11:00:19 2009 +0000 add -c config.file option commit 178c2f7fe18967e43ad33212493fd95a1b214407 Author: Gremlin from Kremlin 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. -- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii .... :wq! --- /bin/vi * Origin: ::1 (2:5020/545) .