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Make your submitting concise, straight and simple. In general, respecting the coding philosophy and coding style, avoiding to do the reformatting of code will help. What is the most important thing someone submitting an issue or patch should know? Since I’m enjoying it, I’ll keep maintaining it except more serious event happen to me.

Notepad++ 666 Friday the 13th edition :.

What keeps you involved in the project? Do you have long term plans for maintaining your involvement?įun - not only when I’m coding it, but also when I’m doing the release notes. But in the same time it’s the best aspect for the project - it keeps the project on the track. As the initial contributor of Notepad++ project, the least favorite aspect of it for me is “you can’t do what you want, you have to response to the community”. Without Notepad++ community, Notepad++ wouldn’t become what it is today. How would you describe the community around your project? What are your favorite and least favorite aspects of it? Instead of trying to manage community, I guide the community by providing the infrastructure (forum, documentation, etc) and rules (workflow) to let people manage the community. I have spent a lot of time on the community but I realized soon that community is not manageable by only one person. The dev time is always the big part for me. Developing, managing the community, triaging issues, etc.)

How do you spend your time on the project? (i.e. The localization system has come afterward and it has enlarged Notepad++’s audience. That was a further step for the development community. Later due to some feature requests which were out of scope of Notepad++, the plugin system has been built. I have had few feature requests and I was enjoying to enhance the Notepad++’s GUI. How has the project evolved since you first released it? On the 25th November 2003 it was made available on SourceForge, hence the birth of Notepad++. I then removed the specific part and continued to develop it in my leisure time. I found Scintilla, built a prototype with it, and suggested this alternative solution. Due to its poor performance, I began an investigation to find another solution (in C++ instead of in Java) in September 2003. The company I worked for used JEXT (another open source code editor in Java) as the production tool. Was the project meant to solve a specific problem, or was it born out of a larger opportunity you saw? No doubt it’s thanks to copyleft concept of FSF.

Notepad++ project was released as free software project in November 2003. In 1997 I was a computer science student in a University of Paris, and I have learnt of the legendary story about Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Linux. What project do you maintain and what was your motivation for creating the project and releasing it as open source software?