Hi fvwm development community
I'm trying to take part in Thomas' rewrite/review of fvwm and since
there
are many people interested in it now I think I should introduce myself
and
tell what I'm currently doing.
My name is Roman Grazhdan, I work as a system administrator at Badoo
Development, supporting dev infrastructure in Moscow office, working
mostly
with puppet, VMware virtualization soulutions and some duct tape. I'm
self
taught and I do not know C. Fvwm was probably my first programming
experience back in 2008 (?), I mean, tinkering with functions and all,
and
I like it a lot.
I also know Thomas as a person who always has a correct answer
(although
you probably are not going to like it).
So I've always wanted to do something for fvwm as a project, and when
Thomas said he's going to sanitize the code and probably rewrite some
parts
I've decided to help. Reading through TODO list, I've picked for myself
the
documentation conversion part - docbook to mdoc. I like the semantic
flexibility of docbook, and I've never worked with mdoc until recently,
but, from my experience, when Thomas says something's useful and
correct it
more often than not turns out to be the case, so mdoc be it for this
project.
At the moment I haven't achieved a lot, had just started converting,
and
I'm doing it manually. I'm not a big fan of automatic conversion tools
and
normally process something more sophisticated than a log file
(semi)manually, using small amount of Perl/sed and interactive tools
like
Sublime Text. I've started quite fast but had to make a break for my
end of
quarter chores and some urgent projects, and only yesterday I've
started to
work on it again.
I now think I can process one large or three to five small files a day,
we
shall see how it's going to work. The (not so impressive) progress can
indeed be tracked in this repository:
https://github.com/Hoodoo/mvwm-docs -
I don't want to use the main one just now, because despite I use git
daily
and even write hooks to validate what I commit, I'm not very good with
branching, rebasing and other advanced features, so I don't want to
make a
mess in the important part of the project's infrastructure.
Additionally, Thomas proposed me to look into code formatting, and I'm
still very enthusiastic about it, but I'm afraid I can't handle two
pieces
of work right now (but we can always reprioritise if need be).
