[PD-dev] commit access + intro

[Ricardo Fabbri]

Dear Hans,

I've been writing patches to pix_opencv, a tiny one that was already
incorporated, and the other which is more significant but is taking
time from Lluis to be applied.

I was going to wait until I sent you some larger patches, however,
I wonder if I could get commit access already since the patch tracker
scheme is taking unnecessary time from people (both from you and from
users that take long to see the changes). Perhaps I could be in a
watch period where I email you & the responsible externals person
every single commit that I make.

Anyways, I am also perfectly OK with having to wait longer. I just
would like you to know about the situation.

Sincerely,
Ricardo
--
Linux registered user #175401
www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri



On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> 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
>> >> --
>> >> Linux registered user #175401
>> >> www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri
>> >>
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>>
>> --
>>
>> Ricardo
>> --
>> Linux registered user #175401
>> www.lems.brown.edu/~rfabbri
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