Re: GSoC Enquiry: Improving binary packaging

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Anirudha Bose <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi.

First of all thanks a lot for selecting me as a GSoC student. It was a real surprise for me. Looking forward to a very productive summer ahead! :)

I was going through the list of accepted projects under GNU Project [1] when I saw that my mentor is Michael Goffioul. However the ideas page of Octave said that the mentor for this project will be either John W. Eaton or Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso. Please clarify this and let me know.

Hi Anirudha,

I will be your mentor for this project. John and Jordi are already busy mentoring other projects, so I offered my services for this one. You might not know me, so let me briefly introduce myself. I've been part of the octave project for a couple of years (since 2007 iirc) and have been on and off, depending on the workload of my regular job. I worked on various things like: Win32 native port of octave, java integration, java-based graphics toolkit (JHandles), builtin octave graphics system, OpenGL renderer, text renderer, and more recently classdef implementation. I'm also maintaining MSVC-based binaries for Windows.

I'm an electronic engineer, but nowadays I'm mainly working in the software engineering domain.

My timezone is UTC-4, so I'm not sure we'll be able to communicate through IRC. Nevertheless, I advise you to hang out on IRC, as there are a bunch of people that will be able to help you if I'm not around. My IRC nickname is "goffioul".

One thing that I would like you to think about sooner rather than later is how you will integrate your project with the current octave code base. It doesn't mean it has to be part of octave source tree (for instance jwe's MXE is a separate repository), but as some point we'll need a plan to integrate your work into the octave "project".

Michael.