From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GP6Zr-0005Az-Cr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8I01H2h000908; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:17 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8I01FP3016764 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:16 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696FC647E7 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32044-02 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FFA6458B for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s19so3877465wxc for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:01:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Nly4RVqlQBFziz448N5T+WJbuMWYoQRzafNmlWTKlvN3fksv7YwAP35H+aLqOlEI0ozjZiG3hz7MMq7ex1LkIYvlcYoO7fIaNxADNlmu8J4KLg5RQNpDTUW2lF1VqWBk6Hq8wCTBxwNhoOSjzleKoVXptI6f426W9LuPTIdK1Gs= Received: by 10.90.94.2 with SMTP id r2mr4203684agb; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.71.7 with HTTP; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7f415aa50609171701k2cf71d35u98bb28ffd325c1a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:01:12 -0400 From: "Grant McDorman" To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-java] Greetings from a new volunteer Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.399 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2] X-Spam-Score: -2.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 65eda97e-d4f9-4ad9-9f52-e924fac01910 X-Archives-Hash: bc8acb2cb2839a1b0e8b6607a5daef0e 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. -- Grant McDorman -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list