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Hello, and welcome! |
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Grant McDorman wrote: |
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> Greetings to all. I've volunteered to assist the Java team (following |
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> the public plea in the Gentoo weekly news). I've already received a |
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> note from Karl T., and have subscribed (obviously) to this list. |
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> Let me introduce myself. I've been in the software development |
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> business for a long time; I worked for what is now UNISYS in the |
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> language products division, for a now-defunct Canadian airline |
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> (Wardair), the Ontario public power utility, and am now working at |
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> Cedara (a medical imaging company, http://www.cedara.com). |
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> Relatively speaking, I'm a latecomer to Java - I started with APL, of |
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> all things, and went through numerous other languages. I'm using Java |
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> at work these days (we have a layer in our imaging toolkit that is in |
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> Java - although, oddly, it is _not_ crossplatform - yet). I use |
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> Netbeans as my IDE at work (or a plain vanilla text editor). All of |
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> this is currently on Windows. (Yes, I know that's unusual - but that's |
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> what our customer wanted, and money talks.) |
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> I also am responsible for a couple of very small projects on |
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> SourceForge - vncsnapshot (http://vncsnapshot.sf.net) and |
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> xtaskmanager. The former gets a bit of attention; the latter, little |
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> to none. Both are written in C (with a little C++ in vncsnapshot, |
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> inherited from the VNC source code base). |
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> I'm not very conversant with ebuilds, although I have written one or |
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> two, and modified a few others (I only submitted one or two to the |
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> Gentoo bugs, though). |
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With regards to Java, our ebuild documentation is at: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/java-devel.xml |
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At the bottom, there are links to general developer documentation. |
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> At home, we have five machines - one is a server and firewall; the |
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> remaining four machines are each for one of the family members. All |
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> are running Gentoo; the personal machines are dual-booted with Windows |
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> XP, but only to play games. (My wife, in fact, doesn't use Windows at |
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> all.) |
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> Personally, I'm older than I care to admit. I have been married for |
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> twenty years, and have two children, both boys, who are now 15 and 17. |
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> So, with respect to the Gentoo Java project: I've looked over the |
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> documents and bug list. I note that most bugs are ebuild problems |
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> rather than program bugs. What would you like me to start with? |
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As far as what to work on, my mantra has always been to work on either |
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a) what interests you, b) what you need, or c) things that bother you. |
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Basically, find an itch and scratch it :) |
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> Note: I can be contacted at this email address (grmcdorman@×××××.com), |
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> or via Jabber (grmcdorman@××××××××.net). I do have a few other email |
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> addresses, but anything sent to Gmail I will see in short order. I'm |
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> not likely to be on the IRC channel, as I haven't had any reason to |
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> use that in the past. |
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If you plan to get very involved with the project, I recommend joining |
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the channel. Most of the team spends at least some time in the channel |
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(some more than others ;) ). I've found it to be the most expedient form |
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of communication for what we do. At the very least, I suggest joining |
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the channel when you are working on Java stuff or reading through our |
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documentation. |
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Regards, |
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Joshua Nichols |
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Gentoo/Java Project Lead |
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