Hi Riccardo It is great to have on board to help move the project forward.
I think that before we make a release we should do as you suggest which is to clean up the build and test infrastructure. regards Kealan On Mon, 27 Jun 2022 at 11:20, Riccardo Iaconelli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I joined a few weeks ago the mailing list (you might have seen some of my > learning pull requests coming along, too) and I would love to briefly > introduce myself to you all. > > My name Riccardo Iaconelli, I've been a KDE developer for over 15 years, a > Mozillian for 5, and throughout my career I worked on several other free > software projects ranging from open knowledge to public software, trying to > ensure they are all healty and community driven. I recently joined Qredo to > help improve the company's open source strategy and practice, both for > internal and when contributing to 3rd party projects. > > Even though I will initially mostly work internally and on new software > that will be released, I will have some time to dedicate to other > endeavors. As such, I'd love to use this time to contribute to Milagro and > help making it a successful and widely used project. > > To start with, I'd love to help facilitate the release of the MPC library, > which as far as I can read from the archives has been almost ready since a > while. I noticed that although there is a tag in the git repository, it was > never officially released or announced, and the build instructions were not > fully working on my laptop (see PR #42). > > What is the status of the library? If the code is ready and it is possible > to change the tag, unless there's a reason for not doing so, I would > suggest re-tagging v1.0 to the latest commit which includes the build fixes > and get it out the door soon. I would be happy to assist here with what is > needed! > I also got my hands a bit dirty with the infrastructure and am introducing > some simplification/parametrization to the Dockerfile. We might want to > wait for that too if you think it's worth it. Thoughts? > > Finally, I noticed the website needs a bit of love, for example marking as > archived/unmaintained the projects that are archived on the GitHub page. I > have already started playing with the website itself (e.g. including MPC > Doxygen documentation), so I will open a specific thread on the matter. > > That's it for now! I am excited to be here, I think Milagro is a great > piece of software and I can't wait to see it graduate as a proper Apache > project! > > Talk to you soon, > > -Riccardo > > >
