TetraPower 970MP (CANCELED) Project
general Debian and FOSS porting machinein category Operating Systems
proposed by pabs on 7th June 2006
Project Proposal
I will be away from the Internet from September 4 2006 until December/January. I\'m still interested in doing the work below on an OSW machine when I get back though.I am a Debian Maintainer, have been a maintainer since March 2005 and generally involved (reporting bugs/etc) since January 2004. I (hopefully) will soon be a full Debian Developer and I would like to expand my involvement to doing porting (amongst other things). I saw the OSW offer on a Debian list and I thought this was the perfect opportunity. The tasks I would like to do with this machine:
- Learn about the ppc64 architecture and porting issues it presents. I\'m hoping that the machine will come with some documentation about this, or some pointers, I suppose the ppczone forums will be helpful too.
- Participate in the debian-powerpc porters list, helping maintainers fix ppc64 specific bugs.
- Test applications related to the Debian groups I\'m involved with. These include: debian-gis, debian-flash, debian-fonts and debian-python.
- Test and fix the GNOME desktop and other apps I regularly use.
- Audit and fix ppc64 porting bugs throughout the debian archive, including automated tests on the whole archive.
- Test and fix the packages that I am involved with upstream. These are:
- synfig: vector animation studio, I\'d like to also make some altivec performance enhancements to this once I\'ve learned enough altivec.
- nsis: windows installer generator - useful testsuite for the mingw32 compiler (gcc win32 cross-compiler) in Debian
- helpdeco: windows help file decompiler
- chmspec/chmdeco/hhm/xchm: chm related utilities
- synfig: vector animation studio, I\'d like to also make some altivec performance enhancements to this once I\'ve learned enough altivec.
- Offer the use of the machine to other upstream developers. If it contains an nvidia graphics card, then nouveau will be the first people I offer it to. Other than that the next main target will be Gnash and the OSFlash community.
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