From: henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner) Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] How to apply for hobbit developer ? Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 22:31:48 +0100
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:20:44PM -0600, T.J. Yang wrote:
or what is the criteria to be qualify enough to have write accesses on
hb
project sourceforge.net ? I am interested to become one. my sourceforge id is "tjyang".
Having write access to the SF project pages doesn't give you much, since SF is only used as a distribution media. There is no CVS or Subversion repository of the Hobbit code there.
My main interested so far is to have hb source tree under GNU auto tool, this was a promise I made a while back but never got a chance to work on it. Now the interest is back.
Are you sure there would be any major benefit from this? I don't mean this as "what a silly thing to do", but the build problems caused by different operating systems are very few - and can usually be solved easily. My concern is that switching to autoconf would require sprinkling lots of "#ifdef HAVE_SOME_FEATURE" all over the code, which makes it much less readable - and hence more error-prone and hard to maintain. So unless it solves a real problem I'm reluctant to commit to using autoconf.
Ok, what is more value added work to help improve hobbit ? Is there a todo list on your mind ?
Thanks for the response
tj
(And yes - there are several large software projects that work just fine without autoconf. OpenSSL, for instance).
Regards, Henrik
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