[hobbit] How to apply for hobbit developer ?

[Henrik Stoerner]

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.

(And yes - there are several large software projects that work just fine
 without autoconf. OpenSSL, for instance).


Regards,
Henrik