[josm-dev] Dirk is the new JOSM maintainer

[Ulf Lamping]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>    Dirk has already said as much in his "server moved" post but I'd like 
> to confirm this with a proper subject.
> 
> When Imi stopped working on JOSM a few years ago I took over from him 
> the job of looking after the JOSM SVN/Trac and the nightly builds and 
> generally keeping an eye on what happens to JOSM. Since Dirk has shown a 
> lot of commitment to JOSM and not only contributed his own improvements 
> but also worked with contributors on their patches, and generally 
> cleaned up our trac and flushed out a lot of tickets on which dust was 
> starting to settle, I asked him whether he'd feel comfortable with me 
> passing the baton on to him and he said yes. (Or more precisely, 
> something along the lines of "well if you have to".)
> 
> So please welcome Dirk in his new role where he bears all responsibility 
> for things that go haywire ;-)
> 
> I'll of course remain on the team and use my "old man" status to sneak 
> my own pet patches past Dirk while he's not looking, or chip in when 
> there's trouble, but I must admit that in the past months I usually 
> heard about problems only after Dirk had solved them already anyway...

Thank you Frederik, for all the work you've done for JOSM - and don't 
forget to spend some time for cool new stuff every now and then ;-)


As Dirk already took over a lot of maintainer work already, I guess this 
is a good and necessary move for JOSM.


Hopefully, we'll see a lot of further JOSM improvements in the future ...

Regards, ULFL