> but others of us have been doing it for some while. Now, I wonder who I had in mind for volunteering for this.... > actually, i'd throw out some of the things that you have in > there at present.... But that is the point, the stuff currently in there now is not there because it is `superior' it is there because it is `written by us' ie it is a totally objective criterion. Except of course for the exceptions, things like calc which we have adopted, and things by us which are not in the core distribution but for one reason or other are scattered around ctan. But my mother always said that it was exceptions that prove the rule. > we hear from you, Frank and Chris, Well I suppose that we are mainly the ones doing core tex coding on the kernel. There are of course other things you don't see. In particular Rainer is most vulnerable to being swamped if the bug report database gets used for an extended distribution. (Also Martin Schroeder who helps front the gnats system.) David