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== About Me ==
== 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.
I am a user, developer, and advocate of GNU 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 the Octave project are
My main areas of interest within Octave are stability and consistency of
user experience, portability, particularly to different versions of
GNU/Linux and Unix, and the [[Signal package|signal processing]]
and [[Communications package|communications]]
packages. My primary development environment is Debian GNU/Linux.


* developing Octave's nascent [[Python interface]]
I am involved in packaging and testing Octave for both the Debian and
* maintaining the [[Signal package|signal processing]] and [[Communications package|communications]] packages
Ubuntu distributions. I am a member of the
* maintaining and improving Octave's build system
[http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianOctaveGroup Debian Octave Group] and
* aiming for stability and consistency of user experience, portability, particularly to different versions of GNU/Linux and Unix
the [https://launchpad.net/~octave Ubuntu Octave Team].
* 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 can be found on #octave as mtmx.
 
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]].
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 ==
== Octave Work ==
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* [https://savannah.gnu.org/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on Savannah
* [https://savannah.gnu.org/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on Savannah
* [https://sourceforge.net/u/mtmiller mtmiller] on SourceForge
* [http://sourceforge.net/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on SourceForge
* [https://bitbucket.org/mtmiller mtmiller] on Bitbucket
* [https://bitbucket.org/mtmiller mtmiller] on Bitbucket
* [https://github.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitHub
* [https://github.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitHub
* [https://gitlab.com/mtmiller mtmiller] on GitLab
* [https://alioth.debian.org/users/mtmiller-guest mtmiller-guest] on Alioth
* [https://salsa.debian.org/mtmiller mtmiller] on Debian Salsa
* [https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller mtmiller] on Launchpad
* [https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller mtmiller] on Launchpad
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