goran at krampe.se wrote:
> 1. Contact me or Ken if you want to Steward one of the current PIs in
> 3.9a.

Consider yourself contacted ;-) I'll sign up for:

* Graphics
* Balloon
* Compression
* FFI

I don't think there is any doubt as to my qualifications in these areas 
(after all I wrote probably half of the code in these packages ;-) but 
if you have any doubts, please ask. The reason why I am choosing these 
packages and not others is simply that they are also critical to the 
work in Tweak and Croquet and therefore deserve special attention on my 
part.

In the next step, I'll figure out where to put the master repositories 
for the above packages (e.g., SqF or Impara, where the latter has better 
maintenance as far as I am concerned) and look for further people who 
have an interest in the above areas. If you are interested in any of 
these areas, please let me know so we can get started. I am *definitely* 
looking for more people since my time is limited and I would like to 
have some active co-maintainers.

Let me also briefly outline my initial plans for the above packages. In 
the FFI and Compression package, stability and consistency are the most 
important goals right now. I have no plans to do any major changes, just 
making sure things work as well (or better) as they are right now. I 
will request that the FFI be removed from the "basic" image, however. It 
has no more right to be in a basic image than VMMaker ;-)

Balloon will see some work. Initially, it will be split into (roughly) 
three packages: The actual "Balloon" package will consist exclusively of 
the rendering related parts. The "Truetype" package will deal with 
TTFontDescription and friends. Finally, the "Flash" package will deal 
with the flash stuff in there. Since I am not planning to put any effort 
into maintaining anything Morphic related I am interested in splitting 
out and handing over the flash package alltogether. If you are 
interested, let me know.

Finally, the graphics package. While stability is a major goal here too, 
I am planning to do some modifications. This includes rectifying the 
dichotomy between the "regular" and the "multi" text processing 
facilities and to make sure that "multi" text processing is as fast (or 
faster) as "regular" text processing. In the long term, this also 
includes a better approach to scalable graphics (Ned's work with cairo 
will play a role here).

None of these issues are any pressing matter, so it'll definitely take 
some time to get done and I have no intention to declare victory by next 
week or so ;-)

Cheers,
   - Andreas