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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 | 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 | My main areas of interest within Octave are stability and consistency of | ||
user experience, portability, particularly to different versions of | |||
GNU/Linux and Unix. I maintain the [[Signal package|signal processing]] | |||
and [[Communications package|communications]] | |||
packages. I'm also involved in developing Octave's [[Python interface]]. | |||
My primary development environment is Debian GNU/Linux. | |||
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 can be found on [https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#octave #octave] | |||
as mtmx. | |||
My editor of choice is [[VIM|Vim]]. | My editor of choice is [[VIM|Vim]]. | ||
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might be useful. | might be useful. | ||
* Update the default oct-file template in edit.m to reflect current best practices and recommended coding style. | |||
* Create a complete Vim environment with [[User:Rik]]'s syntax highlighting rules, indenting, if-end keyword matching, function block jumping, etc. | * 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. | * Update pygments syntax highlighting for Octave if needed. | ||
* Apply [[User:Oheim]]'s custom css for the interval package to the communications package manual. | * Apply [[User:Oheim]]'s custom css for the interval package to the communications package manual, or to the Octave core manual. | ||
* Make a static m-file format/style analyzer, a la pep8, that can help users teach themselves GNU Octave style conventions. | * 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 | * Adapt Debian packaging to operate on a clean hg clone, add build-deps (bison, flex, gperf), build package from any hg revision | ||
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** Should any of this be applied to the official Debian packaging? | ** 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. | * Query the terminal size directly from the terminal instead of readline as a fallback. Also allow COLUMNS and LINES to override terminal size. | ||
== Octave Work == | == Octave Work == | ||
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* [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:// | * [https://alioth.debian.org/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on Alioth | ||
* [https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller mtmiller] on Launchpad | * [https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller mtmiller] on Launchpad |