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My name is Mike Miller, I am a user, developer, and advocate of GNU
== About Me ==
Octave.  I started using GNU Octave around May 2007 while working on my
MSEE.  I started submitting bugs and working on Octave in February 2012,
mainly to fix some compilation problems I had with the newest version on
an older Red Hat Enterprise 5.2 system I use at work.  One thing led to
another and I am now learning my way around the code base, helping to
fix bugs, test, etc.


My main areas of interest within Octave are stability and consistency of
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.
user experience, portability, particularly to different versions of
 
GNU/Linux and Unix, and the signal processing and communications
My main areas of interest within the Octave project are
packages.  My primary development environment is Debian GNU/Linux.
 
* developing Octave's nascent [[Python interface]]
* maintaining the [[Signal package|signal processing]] and [[Communications package|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 [http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup Debian Octave Group] and the [https://launchpad.net/~octave Ubuntu Octave Team].
 
I have been a mentor for two very successful projects under the Google Summer of Code program.
 
You can contact me on [https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#octave #octave] as mtmiller, on Matrix as [https://matrix.to/#/@mtmiller:matrix.org @mtmiller:matrix.org], or on Telegram as [https://t.me/mtmiller @mtmiller].
 
My editor of choice is [[VIM|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.
 
* [https://savannah.gnu.org/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on Savannah
* [https://sourceforge.net/u/mtmiller mtmiller] on SourceForge
* [https://bitbucket.org/mtmiller mtmiller] on Bitbucket
* [https://github.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitHub
* [https://gitlab.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitLab
* [https://salsa.debian.org/mtmiller mtmiller] on Debian Salsa
* [https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller mtmiller] on Launchpad

Latest revision as of 17:19, 26 March 2020

About Me[edit]

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.

You can contact me on #octave as mtmiller, on Matrix as @mtmiller:matrix.org, or on Telegram as @mtmiller.

My editor of choice is Vim.

Octave Project Ideas[edit]

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[edit]

See User:Mtmiller/TODO.

External Links[edit]

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

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