Hi Bill,
Be welcome on MAc OS X porting project :-)
Bill Waggoner a écrit :
I am interested in helping with the mac porting project and I'd like to
introduce myself.
I have been in the "computing" business since 1965.
What an experience: you have seen ~ all generations of computers :)
I currently
work mostly in Perl but have done some projects in Java, PHP, Embperl, SQL,
and other languages.
Noticed
I have always prided myself by being
moderately conversant in many languages. My specialty, if you can call it
that, is interfacing disparate systems using whatever tools might be
available, building custom interfaces.
Ok
Recently I migrated from Windows to a Mac.
Ok
I just wasn't happy with the way that Microsoft was headed and, being familiar
with the Sun Solaris and
Slackware Linux platforms I figured that OSX would be a lot more fun than
yet another install of Windows. I even convinced my wife to migrate to a
MacBook Pro and there is where my interest in OO gets interesting.
I recently convinced mine to use a Mac and OpenOffice.org in her job :)
She does some side work for a friend that was using MS Office Mail Merge and
I've set
her up to use OO instead. But as it (for her) runs under X11 it's a "little
clunky" plus I would like to build a custom app for her to be able to do her
tasks very easily. Her application fits into the "mail merge" category but
is really a "one off" version of that. Thus my interest in joining this
project.
We'll try to provide you the informations you need :)
So, to explain where I am right now.
In the background is the build process for OO SRC680_m225 with the
aqua/cocoa updates. I had no idea that it would take so long for the
initial build!
Ok. I guess you follow the AquaBuild wiki page:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/AquaBuild
Hopefully it will complete sometime tonight.
Here, I need less than 5 to 6 hours max ( cold ccache ).
My system is an iMac 24", 3 G memory and 500Gig HD.
You can expect a faster build 8)
I'm still feeling my way around OO development and, especially, the Mac
porting project. I certainly have learned a lot in the few days that I have
connected.
We try to document as much as possible, and I'm glad to see this helps.
I'd like to take on a small task and get some guidance on how to
proceed.
You're welcome. In fact, we use to discuss on IRC channel, more easy to
help and provide you informations. If you prefer the list, this is no
problem at all.
server: irc.freenode.net
channel: #ooo_macport
e.g. we do weekly IRC meetings. All logs are publics. See :
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Port_Meetings
The logs are available at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Previous_Mac_Meeting_logs
At work we are rather informal and, although we use CVS and other
source control tools, I'm still trying to figure out the structure behind
the OO development environment. This is bigger than anything I have been
involved in before.
Yes, OpenOffice.org is a big project.
I'm a pretty good debugger (meaning that I can break almost anything at
will!) and I suspect that fixing broken code would be a good place for me to
start. But I'll be happy to jump into anything that needs doing.
And we are happy to see people like you join our effort, and you
certainly will help us a lot with your skills !
I hope you can find a spot for me in this effort! I am quite wiling to do
whatever needs doing.
Ok
Thank you for your attention!
Welcome on Mac OS X porting project,
Eric Bachard
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