[hobbit] How to apply for hobbit developer ?

[T.J. Yang]

>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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