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Topic: platform czars needed (Read 613 times) |
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fry
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platform czars needed
« on: May 28th, 2003, 10:59pm » |
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task description
platform maintainer for your favorite os.
minimum commitment
a few hours, once a month. i'll send an email saying that the current version in cvs is ready to go for the next release. you get the latest rev, build it, and test it (run through the examples and try basic coding). if all is well, you package the release using the distribution script, and post it online where it can be added to the site. ideally we'd like you to be able to get this done within 24-48 hours of getting the email. usually, it can be done quickly (minimum of 30 minutes, max of a few hours if there are bumps)
further commitment
if interested, you can take care of more of the tasks related to your specific platform. i.e. on macos, making sure that the distribution is as 'mac like' as possible (.dmg files with pretty icons).
or on linux, making sure that the jvm that's being used will run on most platforms (redhat 7/8/9 in particular), or providing additional install instructions for upgrading the jvm.
if you're unable to do the 'further' commitment but might be able to do the first part, then we'll break that other stuff out as a separate job, since that stuff is still important, and useful finishing details for a nice product.
hey! that's ME!
if interested, send email to processing@media.mit.edu with details of your interest level and some background on yourself.
questions?
if you have general questions, *please please please* respond here, so that others can benefit from your query (most likely, someone else will have the same question, so posting here saves us time)
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fry
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Re: platform czars needed
« Reply #1 on: Jun 24th, 2003, 5:54pm » |
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a way-belated announcement regarding the folks who have signed up for the task.
macosx and macos9 will be handled by timothy mohn (thanks very much!) he mostly uses osx, so if there's someone around who still primarily uses macos9, we'd be happy to have you, but tim will be filling in until this person appears.
mkoser and benelek will be our general pre-testers, working on windows. for now, i'll remain the windows czar for the distribution, though if there's a windows person with a little programming experience, they'd be welcome to take over the task.
we're still needing a linux person.. they pop up every once in a while, but it'd be great to have someone shepherding the process a little more. sure, the self-support thing for the linux gang suits them fine, but i'd prefer to make them feel wanted. 
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Jerronimo
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Re: platform czars needed
« Reply #2 on: Sep 5th, 2003, 6:27pm » |
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I'd like to volunteer to work on the Solaris distribution. I imagine it'll be somewhat close to the linux distro. I want to get a bunch of the professors over here at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, USA) to use Processing for their classes, and it would be advantageous if Processing was available for Solaris.
Regardless, let me know more information if you want to do this.
I can definitely provide "minimum" commitment, and probably "further" as well for this platform.
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