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2011-03-27

I notice subtle changes in the Gmail interface. Today, they made the green and red status icons used in the Chat contacts list less saturated. I probably would have missed it, except for the fact that the Labs feature that shows little robot icons for people using Android phones still shows in the original colors:

This was interesting, the most exciting thing I've seen in a while was this:

18:36 <@qDot_> BTW, zarvox, would you like integration rights on the repo? :3
18:36 <@qDot_> BEcause me doing this is getting a little silly, obviously.
18:36 <@qDot_> There's really no need for me to be man in the middle at this point.
18:39 <+zarvox> qDot_: I would love commit rights to the repo :)
18:39 <@qDot_> Ok. I'll talk to Josh.
18:39 <+zarvox> Thanks.

(a half hour later...)

19:09 <qDot_> Congrats. You're a maintainer as soon as Josh gets you added, which will hopefully be in the next few minutes.
19:13 <zarvox> :D
19:13 <zarvox> *gives qDot_ a big hug*
19:14 <qDot_> Something we should've done a long time ago. :)
19:14 <zarvox> heh, I figured I had to show I was reasonably reliable and going to hang around and that my code didn't suck first
19:16 <qDot_> Oh, no, it's more than we're all just flakey and once you get in the routine you forget you can change it or that other people can help.
19:17 <qDot_> But, yes, what you said too.

So, now I'm official an OpenKinect maintainer. Sweet. Thanks, qDot, JoshB, and marcan! You guys rock.

I'd thought for a while that I really ought to make a significant contribution to the open-source world. I'm reaching the age that a lot of the folks who wrote pieces of software that I admire were when they made their contributions, and I'd been feeling like I should be doing the same. I've been programming for over 10 years now. It's high time that I made something useful and gave it to the world. So, one of my personal goals has been to produce a useful piece of open-source software.

I'm on that track now. I'm not done. This is only the beginning. But I'm moving in the right direction. :)

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