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I know I already can check in, but to keep the record straight I thought I should create my justification topic.

Who am I?

I'm a consultant working on a variety of groupware software, including TWiki (see http://c-dot.co.uk). I have several clients who use TWiki in their day-to-day-business.

What can I do?

I have over 25 years hands-on software design and programming experience, 15 years management experience, including program management, and 4 years TWiki experience. I have contributed a bit to TWiki already, in the form of plugins, patches and advocacy. I would like to be able to check in to further the goals laid out in TWikiRoadMap, most immediately the LocationLocationLocation refactoring and performance patch, and the ReleaseLocksOnSave initiative.

Why do I want to do it?

The main reason I want to further the goals I describe in the TWikiRoadMap is that I am losing clients due to the slow pace of TWiki improvement. TWiki is well positioned to be the leading OSS competitor to SocialText and JotSpot, but is in imminent danger of losing out to more vigorous OSS projects.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 29 Oct 2004

Crawford, I have enabled your access to DEVELOP. Welcome.

I'll send out an email to all DEVELOP developers soon (ok, weekendish), but i'm somewhat behind schedule right now frown

-- SvenDowideit - 02 Nov 2004

Crawford, thanks for initiating and driving the DevelopBranch smile

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Nov 2004


Priority Proposal Status Proposed For Contributors
  TWikiPreferencesNeedsGardening ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  SortOutOopsTemplates ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  DeprecateExpensiveHandlers ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  TestWebManagementInDakar ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  AddSearchToFuncInterface MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  AddonAPI MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  SimplifyPasswordHandling ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  SearchShouldRespectAccessControlsOnWebs ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  DakarFormRelatedProblems MergedToCore DakarRelease ThomasWeigert, CrawfordCurrie
  ErrorHandling ReadyForMerge DakarRelease ToniPrug, CrawfordCurrie
  SortNumerically ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  CentraliseParsing MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  ContextInTemplatesAndPlugins MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  ItalicsWrong ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  ExportNormalizeWebTopicName ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  DiffsFunctionDoesNotAuthenticateProperly ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  ParameterizedIncludes MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  TagParameterSpec ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  AccessPermissionsInDakar MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  AllowFormTemplateWithTemplateTopic MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  ExportMoreRegexes ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  InterestingChanges UnderInvestigation   CrawfordCurrie
  CantRenameLockedTopic MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  RefactorTimeHandling ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  CantReferToFormUsingVariable MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  PluginApiForHandlingMetaData ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  UserListParserTooGreedy ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  FinalPreferences MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, ThomasWeigert, LynnwoodBrown
  WebFastIndex ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  DakarMergeModel MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  MechanismToAddContentToHEAD MergedToCore DakarRelease RafaelAlvarez CrawfordCurrie
  AddContribMailerToCore MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithInclude MergedToCore CairoRelease JChristophFuchs, JoseLuna, PeterThoeny, CrawfordCurrie
  DakarReleaseNotes UnderConstruction DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, WillNorris, PeterThoeny, ThomasWeigert, GregAbbas, LynnwoodBrown, RafaelAlvarez
  MakeLinkChangesSilent ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  ImproveHeaderHandling ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithRev MergedToCore CairoRelease PeterThoeny, CrawfordCurrie, SvenDowideit, ColasNahaboo, WillNorris, RichardDonkin, B4dP4nd4, Florian Weimer
  BetterHandlingForLabelsInForms ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  AddIconToTitle MergedToCore DakarRelease WillNorris, PeterMasiar, RichardDonkin, CrawfordCurrie
  MovePluginsIntoSVN ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  AddJSCalendarToCore MergedToCore DakarRelease ThomasWeigert, CrawfordCurrie
  CannotUseDollarNameInTopicText MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  SecurityPatchBreaksSpacesInFilenames ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  DailyBuildAndSmokeTest UnderInvestigation DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, SvenDowideit, WillNorris
  AddEmailToFunc MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  UseUTF8 UnderInvestigation GeorgetownRelease CrawfordCurrie
  BugBeforeSaveHandlerBroken MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
  SomeBrowsersLoseInitialNewlineInTextArea ReadyForMerge DakarRelease ThomasWeigert, MarioFrasca, CrawfordCurrie
001 WhereAreDocsMasters ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, WillNorris
001 TWikiCodebaseSecurityAudit ReadyForMerge DakarRelease PeterThoeny, SvenDowideit, FlorianWeimer, CrawfordCurrie
005 SearchEngineIndexOnlyPlainView ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
005 TWikiNonRootInstaller ReadyForMerge DakarRelease UweWahser, CrawfordCurrie, LynnwoodBrown, ArthurClemens
006 PerformanceImprovementsInDakar UnderConstruction DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
007 SingleEntryPointForSystemCalls ReadyForMerge DakarRelease FlorianWeimer, RichardDonkin, CrawfordCurrie
008 RcsLiteDoesNotWorkCorrectly ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
010 TWikiTestInfrastructure ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, SvenDowideit
025 LocationLocationLocation ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
025 EditLosesSkin ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
030 ReleaseLocksOnSave ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, WillNorris
037 PluginConfigFiles ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
070 SupportFormsForSettingPreferences ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, ThomasWeigert
075 AddingFormattedTextDuringEdits ImplementedAsExtension DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
080 SidebarProblemWithBadDirectories ReadyForMerge DakarRelease ThomasWeigert, WillNorris, CrawfordCurrie
099 ValidateTestenvAndUseCss ReadyForMerge DakarRelease TravisBarker, TravisCampbell, CrawfordCurrie, WillNorris
100 ModPerlize ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, from a concept by MarziaMastrogiacomo
100 BugInfiniteRecursionInSearch ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 SplitUpTWikiDotPm ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 ViewScriptPartiallyIgnoresTopicPermissions ReadyForMerge DakarRelease SvenDowideit, CrawfordCurrie
100 TheRightWayToRedirect ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 AttachLinkNotStruckOutInPatternSkin ReadyForMerge DakarRelease ThomasWeigert, CrawfordCurrie
100 TocOfBaseTopicInIncludedPage ReadyForMerge DakarRelease WillNorris, CrawfordCurrie
100 SettingLocalLibPath ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 AttachmentVersionsBrokenOnlyShowsLast MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 DowAndWeekNumberInGmTime ReadyForMerge DakarRelease FranzJosefSilli, OliverKrueger, AlexanderStedile, CrawfordCurrie
100 UploadFilterIncorrect ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 MailNotifyTmplUsesWrongMIMEType ReadyForMerge DakarRelease TravisCampbell, PeterThoeny, CrawfordCurrie
100 BetterAttachmentTableForDakarRelease MergedToCore DakarRelease ArthurClemens, WillNorris, CrawfordCurrie
100 ViewPrevRevShowsIncorrectMetaData ReadyForMerge DakarRelease PeterThoeny, CrawfordCurrie
100 EndlessLoopIncludingPageInWebTopicList ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 TWikiDotCfgNeedsGardening ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 PasswordsAreMangled ReadyForMerge DakarRelease ArthurClemens, MartinCleaver, AntonAylward, CrawfordCurrie
100 ImproveChangeReporting ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 ForceNewRevisionCheckBox ReadyForMerge DakarRelease WillNorris, CrawfordCurrie, JeffreyLaughlin, MattWilkie, SamHasler
100 RegisterFailureInsecureDependencyCygwin ReadyForMerge DakarRelease PeterThoeny, CrawfordCurrie
100 HttpOneDotOneSupport ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie, MichaelSparks, SvenDowideit
100 LockRemovalProblem ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 NTWikiTestCasesChangesBroken ReadyForMerge DakarRelease WillNorris, CrawfordCurrie, FrankLichtenheld, MartinCleaver
100 SortOutErrorHandling ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 KeepRcsFilesUnlocked ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 WikiLogoUrlShouldDefaultToLocalInstallation ReadyForMerge DakarRelease MartinCleaver, CrawfordCurrie
100 SkinSearchPath ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 RenameAllowsDotInPageName ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 InstalledPluginSettingCausesError MergedToCore DakarRelease BerndRaichle, CrawfordCurrie
100 TestenvRelockIgnoresPubTWiki ReadyForMerge DakarRelease KennethLavrsen, CrawfordCurrie
100 GetTopicNamesRunsLikeADog MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 OffMeansOnBug ReadyForMerge DakarRelease ThomasWeigert, CrawfordCurrie
100 RenamingProblems ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 ScriptNameVariable MergedToCore DakarRelease PeterThoeny, CrawfordCurrie
100 TestsDoNotCompile ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 WriteLogHasIncorrectWebName ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 SearchInTemplateHangsTWiki ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 RemoveWindRiverCodeFromEditTablePlugin ReadyForMerge DakarRelease ThomasWeigert, CrawfordCurrie
100 WhitespaceBeforeHtmlTag ReadyForMerge   MarioFrasca, CrawfordCurrie
100 DelAndInsTagsAfterTopicSave ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 UserObject ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 MakeSaveAvailableOutsideOfUISave ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 SitemapDoesntValidate ReadyForMerge DakarRelease PeterThoeny, CrawfordCurrie
100 PrefsPmPerformanceFixes MergedToCore DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
100 StopSpaceTabMunging ReadyForMerge DakarRelease CrawfordCurrie
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