[gentoo-java] Greetings from a new volunteer

["Grant McDorman" <grmcdorman@gmail.com>]

Greetings to all. I've volunteered to assist the Java team (following
the public plea in the Gentoo weekly news). I've already received a
note from Karl T., and have subscribed (obviously) to this list.

Let me introduce myself. I've been in the software development
business for a long time; I worked for what is now UNISYS in the
language products division, for a now-defunct Canadian airline
(Wardair), the Ontario public power utility, and am now working at
Cedara (a medical imaging company, http://www.cedara.com).

Relatively speaking, I'm a latecomer to Java - I started with APL, of
all things, and went through numerous other languages. I'm using Java
at work these days (we have a layer in our imaging toolkit that is in
Java - although, oddly, it is _not_ crossplatform - yet). I use
Netbeans as my IDE at work (or a plain vanilla text editor). All of
this is currently on Windows. (Yes, I know that's unusual - but that's
what our customer wanted, and money talks.)

I also am responsible for a couple of very small projects on
SourceForge - vncsnapshot (http://vncsnapshot.sf.net) and
xtaskmanager. The former gets a bit of attention; the latter, little
to none. Both are written in C (with a little C++ in vncsnapshot,
inherited from the VNC source code base).

I'm not very conversant with ebuilds, although I have written one or
two, and modified a few others (I only submitted one or two to the
Gentoo bugs, though).

At home, we have five machines - one is a server and firewall; the
remaining four machines are each for one of the family members. All
are running Gentoo; the personal machines are dual-booted with Windows
XP, but only to play games. (My wife, in fact, doesn't use Windows at
all.)

Personally, I'm older than I care to admit. I have been married for
twenty years, and have two children, both boys, who are now 15 and 17.

So, with respect to the Gentoo Java project: I've looked over the
documents and bug list. I note that most bugs are ebuild problems
rather than program bugs. What would you like me to start with?

Note: I can be contacted at this email address (grmcdorman@gmail.com),
or via Jabber (grmcdorman@myjabber.net). I do have a few other email
addresses, but anything sent to Gmail I will see in short order. I'm
not likely to be on the IRC channel, as I haven't had any reason to
use that in the past.
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Grant McDorman
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