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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 ==
== External Links ==


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


* [https://savannah.gnu.org/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on Savannah
* [https://savannah.gnu.org/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on Savannah
* [http://sourceforge.net/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on SourceForge
* [https://sourceforge.net/u/mtmiller mtmiller] on SourceForge
* [https://bitbucket.org/mtmiller mtmiller] on Bitbucket
* [https://github.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitHub
* [https://github.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitHub
* [https://alioth.debian.org/users/mtmiller-guest mtmiller-guest] on Alioth
* [https://gitlab.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitLab
* [https://salsa.debian.org/mtmiller mtmiller] on Debian Salsa
* [https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller mtmiller] on Launchpad
* [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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