Hi Mariah, I don't know if you got any specific tasks from what was written last week. But I've spoken to a couple of our developers and here are their suggestions:
1) Set up build bot to do automated nightly testing of trunk from the svn repo. Please discuss with Michael Abshoff. 2) Make a copy of the directory trunk in the svn repo, and call it mpir-0.9.0 (development will continue in trunk and only patches for the upcoming 0.9.0 release will be committed to mpir-0.9.0). 3) Try to build eMPIRe using the Sun Forte compiler with configure --enable-cxx. Someone reported it doesn't pass make check. There may or may not be more info on this in our trac system. You will need the patch just posted to the list by Michael for /mpn/Makeasm.am (and you have to run aclocal, autoconf, automake). I have no idea whether this issue still exists, but it would be great to find out. 4) Post the "introduction" to eMPIRe development that I posted the other day, for your benefit, to the wiki. 5) The section about mandatory patch review should be removed from the wiki as should reference to Michael Abshoff as release manager. Instead he should be listed as being in charge of Sage integration of eMPIRe. 6) The website http://www.mpir.org/ should be made sightly more functional. (You need to speak to William Stein about access). At least we ought to have a basic page up describing eMPIRe, how to contribute, who the main developers are, where to get the source and any other pertinent facts that one would expect to see on a main page. 7) The titles [needs review] and [positive review] in trac, should be changed to [done] or something that doesn't refer to patch review. 8) A CHANGELOG based on all the trac tickets with [needs review] and [positive review] should be written and added to the main source directory. If you see anything in that list which you think you can do, please go ahead. If anything is vague or needs input from us, please ask on the list. Others can feel free to add to the list. I didn't for example get to ask either of the Jason's or Brian whether they had anything to add. Mariah, if you can let us know which you are working on, that would be great, as we'll collectively work on ones you don't get to. Bill. 2008/12/4 Mariah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bill Hart, > > My employer has given me permission to spend some of my time working > on MPIR development. I understand that you (and this group) are where > I should find possible projects to work on. I would appreciate some > small > projects to start, so that I can learn about MPIR. While I have only > basic > knowledge about multiple-precision arithmetic, I do know about GNU gcc > compilers > and debugging, C programming, web development, and have some > knowledge > of autoconf tools. > > I must emphasize that I will only be able to work part-time on MPIR. > My employer > has first call on my time, and there may be periods when I go silent > for a few > days will working on something else. > > Mariah Lenox > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
