User:Mtmiller

About Me

I am a user, developer, and advocate of GNU Octave. I started using Octave around May 2007 while working on my MSEE. I started submitting bugs and patches against Octave in February 2012, mainly to fix some compilation problems I had with the latest release on an older Red Hat Enterprise 5 system I used at work. One thing led to another and I am now a co-maintainer of the Octave project, frequent contributor to both development and discussion, bug triager, tester, etc.

My main areas of interest within the Octave project are

• developing Octave's nascent Python interface
• maintaining the signal processing and communications packages
• maintaining and improving Octave's build system
• aiming for stability and consistency of user experience, portability, particularly to different versions of GNU/Linux and Unix
• encouraging new contributors, mentoring, and helping to build community around Octave

My primary development environment is Debian GNU/Linux, but I occasionally build and test Octave on other distributions and Unices.

I am involved in packaging and testing Octave for both the Debian and Ubuntu distributions. I am a member of the Debian Octave Group and the Ubuntu Octave Team.

I have been a mentor for two very successful projects under the Google Summer of Code program.

I can be found on #octave as mtmiller.

My editor of choice is Vim.

Octave Project Ideas

I always have more ideas for projects I would like to work on than I have time for. Please feel free to contact me about any of these ideas, borrow them, work on them, copy them to the projects page, but let me know as a courtesy and in case I have any other thoughts or partial work that might be useful.

• Create a complete Vim environment with User:Rik's syntax highlighting rules, indenting, if-end keyword matching, function block jumping, etc.
• Update pygments syntax highlighting for Octave if needed.
• Apply User:Oheim's custom css for the interval package to the communications package manual.
• Make a static m-file format/style analyzer, a la pep8, that can help users teach themselves GNU Octave style conventions.
• Adapt Debian packaging to operate on a clean hg clone, add build-deps (bison, flex, gperf), build package from any hg revision
  • Can this be used to run an automatic build of a "nightly" package on Launchpad?
  • Should any of this be applied to the official Debian packaging?
• Query the terminal size directly from the terminal instead of readline as a fallback. Also allow COLUMNS and LINES to override terminal size.
• Hi-resolution time using clock_gettime if available instead of gettimeofday.

Octave Work

See User:Mtmiller/TODO.

External Links

I work under the following profiles on these development sites. These are all related to work I've done with Octave to some degree.

• mtmiller on Savannah
• mtmiller on SourceForge
• mtmiller on Bitbucket
• mtmiller on GitHub
• mtmiller on GitLab
• mtmiller on Debian Salsa
• mtmiller on Launchpad