[PD-dev] commit access + intro

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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
> --
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> www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri
> 
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