[haiku-development] Re: SVN commit access for Wim van der Meer
- From: Wim van der Meer <wpjvandermeer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 22:29:05 +0900
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 17 May 2010 14:12, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'd like to propose Wim van der Meer for being granted SVN commit rights.
> > He has provided quite a few patches by now, the last few of which
> required
> > no changes. He has even worked on the app_server and generally seems to
> > know what he is doing, and he has found himself into the codebase quite
> > well.
>
> If Wim takes this email thread as an opportunity to introduce himself,
> I know that would be much appreciated (at least by me).
>
> Regards,
>
> N>
>
>
First of all, thank you for voicing your trust in me. I still feel that I am
very new at Haiku and still need to learn a lot, but I also find that the
Haiku code base is very well laid out, and doesn't require a huge amount of
effort to understand. Of course it helps that the OS itself is relatively
small.
OK, something about myself. I am 43 years old, married, and have a 9 year
old daughter. As many probably guessed from my name I am a Dutch citizen,
but I live and work in Tokyo, Japan, and I have lived here for the past 16
years.
I graduated from the Technical University Delft as an electrical engineer,
but I have a full time job as an application software engineer. I write data
processing, analysis, and visualization software for GPR (Ground Penetrating
Radar) data. The software I write is (currently) for company internal use
only. I am a self taught programmer, started with basic when I was in
high-school, pascal in university, then C, and now C++. I have also very
limited experience with Java, and some Perl and Python scripting.
I am the only software engineer in my company, have never programmed as part
of a team before joining Haiku. I have used Linux since about 2000, but
fully switched since about 5 years ago. Currently I do most of my work with
Qt. Ever since I started to use open source software I have always wanted to
make a contribution, but until now I never really found a project that
interested me enough. Altough I am a fan of Linux, I find it increasingly
bloated, and was interested in doing something different. I'd heard about
Haiku before, but since I am not a system programmer I didn't really feel I
was competent enough to join. Just recently I found out that the project
really made a lot of progress. Reading stuff on the website, I found the
documentation pretty well organized. After downloading Haiku, installing it
in a VM, I checked out the repository, looked at the bugs in Trac and had
the feeling I could maybe help out a little. The Haiku coding style is
pretty close to my own style, and since I use svn and Trac as well for my
own work, working with the Haiku code feels very natural to me.
Well, I hope that you guys now have a better idea who I am. If you need to
know more, just ask!
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Wim van der Meer
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