[PD-dev] commit access + intro

Mon Oct 17 19:10:37 CEST 2011

Hey Ricardo,

Its great that you are working on pix_opencv there.  That library can  
do a lot and still has lots of potential, so more dev work there  
should produce fun stuff.

The patch tracker process may seem onerous, but I find that it is  
quite useful for discussing patches and changes.  It is not at all  
meant to be a barrier to committing, instead it is a useful tool to  
handle different situations.  Also, getting added to the sourceforge  
project does not mean you can start committing anywhere in the pure- 
data repository.  For pix_opencv stuff, you will still need to go thru  
its authors before committing anything.  It is up to the person  
wanting to commit to get explicit permission from the author/ 
maintainer of that library before committing any changes.  For  
example, IOhannes has asked everyone to go thru the patch/bug tracker  
for zexy changes, and though I have the technical permissions to  
commit to zexy, I post my changes to the tracker.

Lastly, I saw that you posted the patches to pix_opencv, but I don't  
know that code at all, so I can't really evaluate it.  If you post a  
patch for code that I know, then I'll review it, and then have a place  
to judge from.  If the pix_opencv authors say they want you to have  
commit access, then I'll add you.  There are other administrators too  
that can grant access if they want to.

.hc

On Oct 16, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:

> 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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