Bluefish - open source text editor for programmers and web-developers (2005-2018)
bluefish 
is an open source editor. It was originally designed as an HTML editor for Linux systems. I started participating in this project in around 2005 with some basic autotools related stuff for upstream and also with my first packaging attempts for the Debian Linux distribution. I became the official Debian package maintainer even in the . Since then my upstream related tasks within this project were:
- maintain and improve autotools related build infrastructure
- maintain German translation
- fix bugs (especially those reported by Debian users)
- add some functionality (mainly for improving website accessibility and SEO)
- improve the PCRE based syntax highlighting files of bluefish series 1.x
- improve modern Linux desktop integration (implement freedesktop.org standards)
- co-maintain and update the project websites
- initially port the program to run on Windows (first run on Cygwin, later run natively)
- make the internationalization (using gettext) work on Windows
- create a first Windows installer
As Debian package maintainer I
- cared about user bug reports,
- provided backports,
- kept the package up-to-date and
- in shape to the Debian Policy
for the distribution.
Today bluefish is a full-featured editor targeted not only towards web-developers but to programmers too. Even if based on GTK it uses a self-written and fast syntax highlighting engine instead of GtkSourceView. I was part of the upstream author team and the Debian package maintainer until and I enjoyed working with Olivier Sessink and the other members of the team. Thanks for a great time.