Radio UserLand Notes

Now that I'm back from vacation, I'm ready to start the development of the next version of Radio. I'll be stepping farther back from a support role while I focus on laying out the future of Radio, especially because we'll be doing it in public. On a phone call with Patrick Ritchie yesterday morning, we decided that the development process will be as transparent as possible, allowing the people who use our software to watch, listen and even speak out.

We'll be managing the project using a Manila site as a discussion group and sounding board. You'll be able to subscribe (RSS of course) and follow us during the best and worst of times.

There is a group of four core developers: two UserLand staffers and two members of the community. Here's the roster:

• Patrick Ritchie
• Marc Barrot
• Andy Fragen
• Steve Kirks

Patrick has several years of Frontier and Manila experience and is currently working with the Manila 9.5 beta test group to help squash remaining bugs. He was primary programmer that created the comment delete feature for Radio users and has written the fantastic Master Ping tool for Radio.

Marc Barrot is the author of the highly regarded ActiveRenderer tool for Radio. His coding skills stretch across many languages and years of experience. It's a privilege to be able to work with him on this project.

Andy Fragen started as a beta tester of Pike, the early version of Radio UserLand. Andy wrote a slew of Radio tools and scripts over the years including the popular dataFileCleaner tool and scored an assist with Marc Barrot on the as yet to be released Markdown tool.

I'm the last one on the list. I've coordinated every update of the Radio codebase over the last year, wrote the FTP port pref code and some private projects and macros.

The four of us will guide development of the application, make decisions about feature implementation and review code submitted by the other developers participating in the project. If you'd like to participate, email me (steve AT userland DOT com) and we'll chat about details.