Hello everyone!

Firstly, allow me to introduce myself (for those of you that don’t know me): I am Elisamuel Resto aka ryuji, developer for Source Mage (like Paul) and the maintainer of the php-pear section of our grimoire among other things. I have been with the project since January 2007 and now volunteered to help Paul with Mage Power.

Now, I would like to share some information to bring you up to date. This is a somewhat lengthy post, you have been warned.

Last post on Mage Power was the release of stable 0.20 grimoire that was shepherded by myself. Right now, stable 0.22 is slated for release tomorrow 06/12/2008 after being delayed due to a important update doing the initial commit freeze. This release is being shepherded by Arwed “alley_cat” von Merkatz.

On some other news, Justin “flux_control” Boffemmyer was promoted to Lead Developer! He was nominated, seconded and subsequently elected by a small margin as the Cauldron Lead. Congratulations, Justin!

Eric “sandalle” Sandall posted to the list giving the final warning on the developers list cleanup, to which I personally helped Eric gather information from all the listed developers. Since it was posted, the deadline was met and right now all that is left to do is request the accounts for removal to our current Project Lead, Jeremy “emrys” Blosser, or, in case he is unable to, David “dkowis” Kowis (the Project Lead’s current assistant). Thanks go to Eric for his effort.

Justin “flux_control” Boffemmyer posted on the sm-discuss mailing list that from 06/11/2008 to around 06/22/2008 he was going to be unavailable, and that he was attempting to release updated 0.10.0 devel version of our install ISO, but this was trampled due to the compile taking longer than expected. He commented on a later reply that he will attempt to finish it while he is away from home, but noted to not count on it.

Andraž “ruskie” Levstik, who has been handling the voting for Justin’s General Lead position and the Cauldron Lead elections, noted that some of the current general leads have been failing to vote in the past two vote calls. As suggested by another developer, I take this opportunity to bring to attention our policy, which states that general lead developers who are not marked as away and fail to participate in the voting processes for two consecutive months or longer (provided that there have been at least two vote calls in the interim) are automatically removed from Lead Developer position without vote or veto.

Lastly, for those people interested in encryption of paritions/filesystems, Vlad “Enqlave” Glagolev has added the loop-aes spell and other needed changes in the grimoires. All feedback is welcome.

Thanks for your attention and until next time!

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