Hi
I read the email Lars posted to the cocoa-dev mailing list. I've read
through your list of ideas and I'm interested in applying to work on
the GNUstep project over the summer. I'm a Cocoa developer with
experience writing server/client applications, standalone applications
and frameworks. I also have experience maintaining my own open source
framework Amber which I made public earlier this year at [http://code.google.com/p/amber-framework/
]. Admittedly the public repository has fallen somewhat behind that of
my private repository. I've often consulted GNUstep implementations to
get ideas for how best to tackle a problem myself, I think it's a
brilliant resource and I would love to contribute to it.
Having read through your list of ideas I'm most interested in working
on the CoreData implementation to gain a deeper understanding of the
framework. I've also been thinking about ideas not on the list,
something that I feel would be worthwhile would be updating the
frameworks to include some of the latest Leopard additions, ensuring
that other can continue to consult the framework implementations.
Another idea I considered was attempting to implement an Objective-C
2.0 compatible runtime, essentially revamping the runtime modeled on
the work Apple has already done, though perhaps this is too great an
undertaking for one person?
Before applying I would like to ask about the front/backend separation
and to what extend it will influence the code I would be writing. As
far as I can tell this applies only to drawing code, understandably
the code needs to run on multiple platforms. I'm assuming the ideas I
have discussed are in the domain of the frontend code, except maybe
the new runtime implementation? The reason I ask is that I only have
access to a 32 bit Intel Mac OS 10.5 development environment and as
such, I wouldn't be able to test any WIN32 based backend. I do hope
this doesn't preclude me from applying.
Looking forward to hearing from you shortly,
Keith
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