Editing 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 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.

I can be found on [https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#octave #octave] as mtmx.

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.

* 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.
* Update pygments syntax highlighting for Octave if needed.
* 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.
* 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.

== 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://alioth.debian.org/users/mtmiller mtmiller] on Alioth
* [https://launchpad.net/~mtmiller mtmiller] on Launchpad