Hey Charles, It's great to have new blood joining the NAnt team, but may I ask which project admin you contacted to become member ?
Regards, Gert -------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Chan" <cchan...@users.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:23 AM To: <nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [nant-dev] [INTRO] Self-introduction for Charles Chan > Hello fellow developers, > > I am the newest addition to the NAnt developers team, let me provide a > brief self introduction. > > Current Experience > ============== > I am a senior software engineer & mobile team lead at my > current employment. Mostly I use C/C++/Java code at work, but our > compilation > & release are handled by a combination of shell/NAnt/ant build > scripts. Additional, we use Hudson for CI. > > Previous Experience > =============== > In addition, I have worked on server-side development in the past, using > J2EE, XML, HTML, > JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, SQL. I also have experience with C#.NET developing > desktop applications. In addition, I am familiar with various databases > such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, etc > > Open Source Experience > ================== > I have participated in other open > source projects such as GoogleTest, Hudson, jTDS as well. > > Objective for joining NAnt > ================== > 1) A short 0.8x or 0.9x beta/rc release, follow by a stable 1.0 release -- > This is to ensure all the patches from the last few years are > re-incorporated back into a common tree. It's double maintainence for > company to have to keep a patched copy of NAnt locally in their SCM > system. Besides, every contribution helps improve the general user > community. > > 2) Add/Remove platform / solution support to keep up with current > technologies. > > 2) Compare the changes that has been requested / or > added in other builds systems -- Evaluate what makes sense to add in a > next release. > > What's been done > ============= > The first order of business for me was to find and setup a stable server > for generating CI builds and releases. Thanks to the folks at > TeamCity.CodeBetter.com, I was able to register an account for NAnt > project there. > Take a look at > http://teamcity.codebetter.com/project.html?projectId=project69 > > Help requests > ========== > I am ready to generate a new NAnt release (eg. 0.87-rc1), and requires > some assistance. If any of you can provide some information, it would be > much appreciated. > > 1) What is the proper way to make a release? -- On the CI server, I am > current using VS.NET with NAnt.sln. But where are the artifacts? > > 2) On the NAnt homepage, I see the software is described compatible with > .NET > 1.0/1.1/2.0/3.5; Mono 1.0/2.0/3.5, etc... How does NAnt project > produce one library and make sure it's compatible with all of the above > platforms? Do you compile with the lowest common denominator (.NET 1.0)? > How do you ensure a library works with both .NET and Mono -- simply by > assuming the CLR is consistently implemented on all platforms? Do you have > to compile on both Windows and Linux platforms? > > 3) (related to #2) What is the difference between "Target" and "Runtime" > support? eg. .NET Compact Framework 1.0 only has support for "Target", but > not "Runtime". Does this simply mean NAnt can only used on a host PC to > compile .NET > CF 1.0 project, and not available as a library to execute on a WM > device? > > 4) I see in the trunk, there are files named "nighly.xml" and > "release.xml". These sound like they are a bootstrap process, can anyone > provide a highlevel overview of how they work? (I haven't read these in > much detail.) > > Cheers, > Charles > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet > Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at > http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > nant-developers mailing list > nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
