"B. Douglas Hilton" <bdhilton@charter.net> writes: > Yeah, but I'm such an old fart... I actually used to run Debian 0.97 > on my old 386 (and it was sooo cool). As far as Linux is concerned, > I have always used Debian and nothing else. For years and years I have > just been a "Debian User" -- now I want to be a developer. > > That being said, I am a pretty spiff programmer. Yes, by occupation I > am a Mechanical Engineer, but at work I write programs 90% of the time > because I am the #1 programmer at my place of work. And I have been > involved with hacking Debian for some years. I don't want to steal > Marcus's and Thomas's fame, but I had pthreads working in Debian Hurd > before it was included because I hacked the crap out of GNU Pth and > got it to build. I spent mega hours building Hurd cross-compilers to > try and debug OSKit/Mach and unfortunately it failed, but I made some > minor contributions before my SMP motherboard died. > > I posted this to debian-hurd@lists.debian.org but I will repost it here > as well, I guess, to help document my case... > >> Look here... http://cvs.ossp.org/pkg/lib/pth/ChangeLog >> Search for "Hilton" and you will see: >> *) Add Autoconf support for GNU Hurd. >> [B. Douglas Hilton <doug.hilton@engineer.com>] > > I have been quietly been trying to help Debian for a very long time, > and I just want to join the community. I'm a degree'd Mechanical > Engineer, for Heaven's sake, that alone should be enough, Yeah, yeah, a real rocket scientist I'm sure... ;) > nevermind that I can debug kerenels, write mean programs, and pound my > share of brews and keep a smiling face all the while :-) > > Ok, one of my SCSI drives is clicking (probably the one I got on Ebay) > lucky there's nothing on it right now. Gotta go. Anyways I am one mean > programmer... I actually understand GNU Autotools ( I became a Linux > Wizard of Third Rank at that time ) and I'm not some gnubie. > > Fine, I'm glad to help "unofficially" ... what do you want me to do? Poke around here and see if anything looks interesting to you: http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/ Sending patches to the BTS, especially for release-critical bugs, is always helpful as well. Right now, we have around 800 RC bugs. http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ http://bugs.debian.org/~cjwatson/severity.cgi -- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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