[whispersystems] TextSecure March Appreciation

[Moxie Marlinspike]

As an OSS project, we get a lot of help from people in the community. I
want to try to explicitly recognize some of the great contributions we
get. This month I want to thank two people:

1) @agrajaghh (https://github.com/agrajaghh), who has done a really
amazing job of taking on a lot of simple but significant refinements
that we haven't had time to do ourselves. The updated settings activity
and the transition to material dialogs are both examples of things that
make the app feel a lot nicer and were easy for us to review/merge, but
that we wouldn't have had time to do ourselves. If you're interested in
making contributions to the TextSecure repo, I think watching what
agrajaghh does and following suit is a great way to get involved.

2) @mcloo (https://github.com/mcloo), who has done an excellent job of
QAing PRs. Almost every PR that comes in, @mcloo tests himself, often
across different devices, and inevitably finds bugs or corner cases that
we've missed. The effort he has put into this has undoubtedly improved
the overall reliability and feel of the app.

And thanks to everyone who submitted well documented issues, submitted
well factored PRs, and helped with support.

- moxie

[Patrick Connolly]

Yeah yeah yeah! A supportive thread! This is exactly what all you guys and
girls deserve, and I'm embarrased it had to get kickstarted by Moxie
himself. You guys all do amazing work, and there's tons of appreciation
even if the hardcore users can sometimes be a bit grumpy over particular
decisions.

Thanks @agrajaghh and @mcloo and @m0xie, and everyone who puts their hearts
into this little project.


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Post by Moxie Marlinspike
As an OSS project, we get a lot of help from people in the community. I
want to try to explicitly recognize some of the great contributions we
amazing job of taking on a lot of simple but significant refinements
that we haven't had time to do ourselves. The updated settings activity
and the transition to material dialogs are both examples of things that
make the app feel a lot nicer and were easy for us to review/merge, but
that we wouldn't have had time to do ourselves. If you're interested in
making contributions to the TextSecure repo, I think watching what
agrajaghh does and following suit is a great way to get involved.
across different devices, and inevitably finds bugs or corner cases that
we've missed. The effort he has put into this has undoubtedly improved
the overall reliability and feel of the app.
And thanks to everyone who submitted well documented issues, submitted
well factored PRs, and helped with support.
- moxie
--
http://www.thoughtcrime.org

[agrajaghh]

Thank you moxie for the nice feedback! Always good to hear that your
work is appreciated :)

But Patrick Connolly is right, you're hearing a lot of complaining from
a (loud) minority of the users. It should be said more often that you
guys working at OWS are doing a great job! So thank you a lot moxie,
mcginty, rhodey and all the other people working at TextSecure, Signal
and TextSecure-Browser for putting so much time and effort in this
important project!

Post by Moxie Marlinspike
As an OSS project, we get a lot of help from people in the community. I
want to try to explicitly recognize some of the great contributions we
amazing job of taking on a lot of simple but significant refinements
that we haven't had time to do ourselves. The updated settings activity
and the transition to material dialogs are both examples of things that
make the app feel a lot nicer and were easy for us to review/merge, but
that we wouldn't have had time to do ourselves. If you're interested in
making contributions to the TextSecure repo, I think watching what
agrajaghh does and following suit is a great way to get involved.
across different devices, and inevitably finds bugs or corner cases that
we've missed. The effort he has put into this has undoubtedly improved
the overall reliability and feel of the app.
And thanks to everyone who submitted well documented issues, submitted
well factored PRs, and helped with support.
- moxie

[Sam Lanning]

Post by agrajaghh
Thank you moxie for the nice feedback! Always good to hear that your
work is appreciated :)
But Patrick Connolly is right, you're hearing a lot of complaining from
a (loud) minority of the users. It should be said more often that you
guys working at OWS are doing a great job! So thank you a lot moxie,
mcginty, rhodey and all the other people working at TextSecure, Signal
and TextSecure-Browser for putting so much time and effort in this
important project!

Indeed!

Thank you everyone who has contributed to the project, and in particular
the guys at OWS and the top contributors! =) You guys are awesome and you
don't hear that enough!!!!

Sam.

[Leandro Salvador]

Hey Moxie and everybody! I make all the praises said my own! You're great!
TKS for all the efforts and make the world a bit
better/safer/free/collaborative! =)

(Enviado via Linux Android.)

Post by Sam Lanning

Post by agrajaghh
Thank you moxie for the nice feedback! Always good to hear that your
work is appreciated :)
But Patrick Connolly is right, you're hearing a lot of complaining from
a (loud) minority of the users. It should be said more often that you
guys working at OWS are doing a great job! So thank you a lot moxie,
mcginty, rhodey and all the other people working at TextSecure, Signal
and TextSecure-Browser for putting so much time and effort in this
important project!

Indeed!
Thank you everyone who has contributed to the project, and in particular
the guys at OWS and the top contributors! =) You guys are awesome and you
don't hear that enough!!!!
Sam.