[haiku-development] [haiku-development] Re: Commit access for Andreas Färber
- From: Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:25:21 +0200
Hello,
Seeing the controversy and the direction this discussion has taken in
the meantime, I think it's time for me to pick up the new tradition of
introducing oneself:
I am in my late twenties, moved to Nuremberg (Germany) last year, hold
a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (software engineering and
Internet technologies) and work as a software developer. I have a 21-
year experience in programming, from BASIC and Pascal through C/C++ to
Java and C#. At university I tutored our ANSI C course and did
research on wireless positioning systems (802.11 and Bluetooth); my
thesis was about hierarchical video streaming with H.264 Scalable
Video Coding.
The Supercomputing Conference's 2004 theme "Bridging Communities" has
been a major influence both on my studies and on my Open Source
commitments. I got involved with the Mono project when I switched to a
PowerPC Mac and aided in porting Mono to Solaris 10 amd64 for a number-
crunching app; my port to Mac OS X ppc64 remained unfinished. As tools
for porting and testing I have contributed to Q, QEMU and OpenBIOS.
I used BeOS R5 PE for a short time (as triple-boot with Windows and
SuSE) and had started a C++ client for my experimental Planche fencing
tournament software system back then. By now all my business logic has
been converted to the Common Language Infrastructure, so that I have
been porting Mono and assorted tools to Haiku and helping build up
HaikuPorts along the way. There are two blocking issues currently,
incomplete serial port support (ioctls and drivers) and lack of real-
time signal support in the kernel.
Ken Thompson has been quoted as saying, "One of my most productive
days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." In a similar spirit my
biggest contribution to the Haiku community probably was r34854, a one-
liner that paved the way to a number of fixes and improvements of the
PowerPC port. Personally I hope to run a Haiku desktop on my old
PowerMac G3 one day, which is stuck with Mac OS X v10.3.9 for now, and
am using this as a means to learn about the inner workings of an
operating system on the platform I understand best.
Cheers,
Andreas
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