Hey all,
Here's an 'official intro'...
Interested in contributing to the project, although I expect the capacity to vary a bit based on my paid job schedule, as well as getting up to speed on AOS development after 'forever' away from it.
I've worked as a paid developer for > 8 years, as well as a sysadmin, and have done build/release engineering as well as some PM work. Languages of choice are C and C++, and have done a good amount of cross-platform development, primarily in the *nix world and unfortunately, Windows. Other languages include SQL, shell, Java, Python..
I've worked with most flavors of *nix, Solaris since Solaris 2.5.1, Linux since pre 1.0 kernel days. Add HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and others as I've been 'forced to.' Stared out on TRS-80, Pet, Apple, (first 3 'borrowed'), VIC-20, Atari 400, then a handful of Amigas before going into the US military, where I ironically wound up working on databases, then leaving and getting a degree in CS and 'starting real work' ;-)
Most dev work has been back-end (server side or writing to system APIs like POSIX and win32 API), no GUI- although I've got a bit of HCI and know 'what makes a good UI,' I just never got into that part of development...current 'preferred platforms' are basically anything not Windoze..FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, Solaris are 'personal use', and trying to like Mac OS X currently, although I'm not sure how that one will pan out (looks like they took a perfectly good Unix and broke it so far :-( )
Currently have a uA1 on order, am told it'll be a week or two to have in hand (finally?).
Work schedule changes daily lately, but am under the gun for the next few weeks or so, more than likely...after that, things may ease up a bit.
I'll be starting basically back at square one for AOS development, so will have to spend some time doing that once my uA1 comes up, but whatever I can do in the meantime I'll certainly try to.
I mentioned to Olegil that if an rsync mirror is needed for any of the project's work, I should be able to supply that on RAID disk...either the entire repository/website can be replicated, or just the source tree, whichever. The connection wouldn't be fast enough for anything else, at ~384k, but more than fast enough for a backup or for source control, defect tracking, or the like. That system would likely be a dual PIII FreeBSD box, which should be able to run any tools if any are needed.
I've no overwhelming urge to become a PM as my paid work is 'enough' for right now, but if/when leads are needed for 'other than head honcho' for specific tasks, I could probably help out in that area until I can get AOS coding up to speed...
Thanks,
Scott (Wegster on forum(s))