Just a short post to announce myself as co-maintainer of libgit2. I don't know how long this will last, but Shawn O. Pearce (one of the truly heavy names in git development) will be very busy with the Google Summer of Code project, where core git has two student slots.

Shawn has been busy quite a long time (understandable, as he still makes significant contributions both to git.git and jgit.git), and only me and Ramsay Jones have made any significant contributions to libgit2 since it was announced back in November 2008.

Hopefully, this will mean whatever patches there are will get applied faster and that development will move forward at a quicker pace.

Personally, I've got a lot of un-committed work lying around that pertains to index reading and writing. I'll be working on finishing that up and sending it out to git@vger for review. The sooner we can get *some* part of the library working properly the better, imo, as git.git can't start using it until it does.

Oh, and libgit2 is currently looking for additional contributors. It doesn't really matter what you want to work on. Just clone the repo from git://repo.or.cz/libgit2.git and start hacking. Patches could go either to me (ae@op5.com) or to the git mailing list (git@vger.kernel.org).