Re: Coders and projects

[root <jknox@ethergate.com>]

Hey,

	I dont know if I will be able to official be a programmer for the
project right now, but I might. I know C and some C++. Its hard to say
how good I am, because I havent really worked on any big projects
before. Except for management that is, I am a leader for the ReactOS
project. ReactOS is making a clone(except for the bugs and problems) of
the NT operating system under the GNU GPL license. At one time we have
500 developers, now we have around maybe 10 who actually submit usefull
code. I will sorta help out by the bazaar model I guess, check out that
source and programm whats missing. Of course this is time permitting,
running LITC takes alot of my spare time now. 

Jeff Knox


>Douglas Loss wrote:
> 
> I think Justin Maurer asked a crucial question--who do we have with c/c++
> coding experience, and with GNOME/gtk+ experience?  From the answers is looks
>  to me as though we have a reasonable core of experience c/c++ programmers,
> although most haven't had any exposure to GNOME/gtk+.  To me this suggests
> something similar to what David Ridley said, that we can start work on the
> core procedures of whatever project we decide to start with just about as
> soon as we have a good definition of what it is.  The UI(s) can be kept
> separate from that core, so that you can have a GNOME wrapper, a curses
> wrapper, an HTML wrapper, etc., just as Justin Bradford mentioned.
> 
> This sounds similar to the thoughts many of us were having about gradebooks,
> lesson plans, etc.  Does it seem to anyone else that we may be near ready to
> start with that?  Bruno Vernier, could you think about the data structures
> these programs ought to have?  You don't need to present them in strict XML
> with a complete DTD worked out; just a good description of what's needed will
>  be enough.  Then David can shoot holes in it :-), by which I mean we can
> review and discuss it.  Once we have a good idea of the data we want to work
> with and how they're represented, we can think about what kind of operations
> we want to be able to do with them.  Once _that's_ done, we should have a
> reasonable functional description of the programs we want and can code away.
> 
> I admit that I don't have any experience managing a major coding project, but
>  I think Justin Bradford does (right?).  Justin, did my sequence above sound
> about right, or is there some better way to come up with a framework to work
> within?
> 
> If you're not an accomplished programmer, don't think that there won't be
> anything for you to do in these efforts.  Coming up with the functional
> descriptions requires some logical thought but not necessarily programming
> expertise.  Testing the programs is also something that benefits from people
> not closely involved in their development.  Writing documentation is also
> important, as is being one of the brave souls who first trys to use the
> program in a real-world situation.  There's something for all of us here.
> 
> And if you _are_ a coder and aren't excited about the core procedure stuff I
> talked about above, there's still a need for the UI stuff.
> 
> --
> Doug Loss            An idealist is one who, on noticing that
> dloss@csrlink.net    roses smell better than cabbage, concludes
> (717) 326-3987       that they will also make better soup.
>                         H. L. Mencken

-- 
Jeff Knox

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