Brian Wilson <[email protected]> writes: > > What is the procedure to submit FoxtrotGPS code changes?
In short: - Get familiar with Bazaar <http://bazaar-vcs.org/>. - Make a branch for whatever issue (singular) you're solving. - Discuss what you're doing with us so that you don't run down a cul de sac. And then I should be able to merge your branch into the mainline. As far as `mergeability' goes...: - Try to stick to a single issue for a given branch, because it's harder to decouple things afterward. - The commit-history on branches that you submit needs to be clean: if I can't read through and understand what you're doing and why, then I can't merge it. And your commit-log messages are going to become entries in our ChangeLog file (cf. our ChangeLog :)). I'm trying to respond to e-mail within 3 days or so, these days; if you're not getting a satisfactory response quickly enough through e-mail, please do drop by on IRC--we're not all available there all the time, obviously (for example, I'm available mostly during US-Eastern evening hours), but we're available. > In my day job I am reluctantly a Windows / C# programmer and I need > this both as personal therapy and because I am convinced I can build > a better "nuvi" than Garmin can. Better for me anyway. > > My biggest goal is to fix the spelling on "metric" :-) Is it really > spelled "metrical" someplace? "metrical", huh.... Somehow, nobody ever noticed that--including me.... > def met·ri·cal adj.1. Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter Yeah.... > After that is accomplished I want to add USNG support. I realize those > outside the US might not want US national grid support cluttering up > their config screens, so should it be a compile time or run time > option? > > Hopefully USNG will be widely adopted over time in the US, it is a > much better system than the many variations of lat lon. This is interesting--I'll have to learn about it. I'm skimming through the Wikipedia article, and some of the sites to which it links, right now. Do you have any specific docs that I should read? Is the rest of the world doing something substantially similar, or is this really just a US-only thing? > I just got some APRS gadgets and would like to work on the AVL service > (what they call "friends" in Tango). > BTW calling it "friends" might make for resistance to acceptance in > professional applications. Have to call them something else. > "Co-workers" or maybe "Entities". Heh. Anyway has anyone been working > on this?? (The feature itself that is, not changing its name :-) It's > mentioned on the Foxtrot roadmap page. It is indeed on the to-do list: the whole subsystem needs to be replaced with something more open and generic. The best candidate looks like the XMPP (Jabber) location-sharing framework: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0080.html ... so I specifically want to try going down that route; nobody's got around to working on that yet, though. > (A "roadmap" -- how appropriate!) :) -rozzin. -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ This message is sent to you from [email protected] mailing list. Visit http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss-gps to manage your subscription For more information, check http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS-GPS
