[PD-dev] commit access + intro

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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 <hans at 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
> >> --
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> >> www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri
> >>
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> >
> >
> 
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> 
> Ricardo
> --
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> www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri