New developer introduction

[Ian Clatworthy]

Mark Hammond wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I'm hoping to be able to contribute some of my development experience to
> this wonderful project.  I've been involved with open source for well over a
> decade, usually revolving somewhat around Windows - I'm committer to the
> Python project and maintain the Python for Windows extensions ('pywin32')
> along with various other bits and pieces, including the Mozilla 'pyxpcom'
> Python bindings.

Mark,

Wow and welcome. It's exciting to have you here!

> Eventually I will know enough about how bzr works to make more specific
> comments, but that will take some time.  In the meantime, I obviously
> welcome all comments which can help enlighten me on the current state of
> things, or even the current state of people's thoughts! I hope to attend the
> bzr sprint at pycon, which I expect will give me a big boost along the
> learning curve, but in the meantime I'll lurk around and try to get my head
> around the current state of the bazaar...

That's great news. Looking forward to meeting you at PyCon. BTW, it
would be nice if people attending the sprint signed up so we have an
idea of who to expect to see there. The wiki page to do that is
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyCon2008/SprintSignups/Bazaar.

Ian C.