That's a good idea, try looking in the bug tracker and starting there with any bug that you are interested in.
.hc On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 19:18 -0300, Ricardo Fabbri wrote: > Thank you, Hans. > > I think that sounds reasonable. The hard drive from the big computer I > was working with just died, > so I am having this transition time to deal with anyways. Soon enough > I'll come up with the patches. If there is any bug specifically you'd > like to see fixed, let me know and maybe I can give a shot at it. > > Best, > > On Saturday, October 1, 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > wrote: > > Hey Ricardo, > > > > Welcome, its great to have you working on Pd! This Lab Macambira > sounds > > very promising. The way things work with getting SVN access is > 'lazy > > consensus'. Basically we wait for a while and if no one objects, an > > admin will add you as a committer. Since you are new to > contributing to > > Pd, I'd like to see a patch or two from you before adding you. > > > > .hc > > > > On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 19:26 -0300, Ricardo Fabbri wrote: > >> Hello, all, > >> > >> I would like to introduce myself and humbly request to be a Pd > committer. > >> Following http://puredata.info/docs/developer/SVNCommitAccess > >> this is the required info: > >> > >> My name is Ricardo Fabbri and I have been working with free > software > >> since 1999, specializing in computer vision and image processing. > >> During my PhD I worked on 3D reconstruction algorithms and video > camera > >> self-calibration, and have also worked for Google in applications > of > >> related technology for the scanning and indexing of books and other > print > >> material. I have recently returned to Brazil where I helped found > the > >> free software group Lab Macambira (labmacambira.sf.net), together > with > >> my brother Renato Fabbri, Vilson Vieira, and others. We are > currently > >> a team of 15. > >> > >> My brother had a significant influence in Pd Con that was held in > >> Brazil, as well as in the rise of the Brazilian Pd and Linux > community. My > >> brother is a composer and is doing graduate work in computational > >> physics. I was actually the one who introduced him to Pd and Linux > >> back in the days when he was working with Max. We were also joined > by > >> Gilson Beck, another composer who got hooked on Pd. Currently, my > >> direct interests with Pd development are to support the demands > from > >> these composers, but, mainly, to support Pd as a core component of > our > >> real-time video processing stack. We use Pd for guiding C++ modules > >> linked to OpenCV and VXL. > >> We also use Scilab as a quick prototyping language for new > algorithms. > >> As you can see, Pd is the guiding master of our systems, so it is > >> crucial for us to have a development grip on it. Commit access is > >> important as we would like to develop this key component with you. > You > >> can count on our painstaking care not to break anything and our > >> willing service to improve Pd. Perhaps with a commit access it will > >> make it easier to do small improvements and documentation, for a > >> start, or bigger things such as adding completely new > functionality. > >> > >> Our concrete plans for developing Pd are related to pix_opencv: > adding > >> new functionality, > >> providing bugfixes, and modifying pix_opencv_bgstats to allow for > >> different background modeling algorithms, > >> and also profiling it to make it faster and more responsive. We > plan > >> to help maintain puredata_opencv in general, > >> as well as helping you guys out with whatever you need. We were > also > >> thinking about helping to migrate > >> the community pd-svn repository to Git, or even Gem to Git, so that > at > >> least all our repos are under the same version control. > >> Any suggestions on how to help are more than welcome. We are very > glad > >> to be interacting with you. > >> > >> SF user: ricardofabbri. > >> Optionally, Vilson's SF user: vilsonvieira and My brother's: > greenkobold > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Ricardo > >> -- > >> Linux registered user #175401 > >> www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Pd-dev mailing list > >> Pd-dev@iem.at > >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > > > > > > > > -- > > Ricardo > -- > Linux registered user #175401 > www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
