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At present, I am project manager of Clp and Cbc and also have responsibility for parts of Cgl and CoinUtils. I intend to step down as project manager sometime in the next year, and would like to give advance notice of my intentions. I hope that these projects will continue to be used and I think that two areas need addressing to make this possible.</font><font size="4" face=" Arial"> <br>
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Firstly I would welcome volunteers to take over management of these projects. There are some areas such as Cbc's heuristics or CoinUtil's factorization which are fairly self contained and would not need a very great effort to understand and maintain, while some areas such as Clp are more complex.</font><font size="4" face=" Arial"> </font><font face=" Arial">I would of course work with anyone to make this as easy as possible.</font><font size="4" face=" Arial"><br>
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Secondly I need advice on how to share my knowledge of these projects. Obviously cleaning up code and adding more comments would help, but I think that more is needed. This would probably be part of the Cbc or Clp wiki. So if anyone has suggestions as to topics I would like to hear from them.</font><font size="4" face=" Arial"> </font><br>
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<font size="4" face=" Arial">John Forrest</font></body></html>