Re: Team Collaboration Considerations

[Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 12:10:20PM -0800, Jerry D wrote:
> On 12/8/22 11:14 AM, Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f) via Fortran wrote:
> > I was thinking I might try to contribute when I retire, though that may be in a year or two.  But it's been a very long time since I dove into a large software project and it's intimidating.  I do know C (really C++, I haven't used plain C for a long time).   I am one of those "aging" types but I am familiar at least superficially with newer tools because I must use them for work, specifically git and Slack (Mattermost seems to be an open-source Slack alternative) -- we make heavy use of Slack in particular.
> > 
> > Is there some kind of "getting started" guide?
> > 
> > Katherine Holcomb
> > UVA Research Computing  https://www.rc.virginia.edu
> > kah3f@virginia.edu    434-982-5948
> > 
> 
> In your case I would recommend just pick a bug and start exploring it with
> gdb and valgrind.  There is no need to learn the whole project.  If you
> want, we could pick one for you as a starter.  I will send you an invite to
> the Mattermost so you can watch as we organize it.  One thought we had is to
> use "boards" for categories of bugs and use it as a way to triage the list
> of bugs (ideas evolving)
> 

Katherine's name appears in the copyright notice in intrinsic.h
and intrinsic.c.  The overall design has not changed from when
g95 was imported to become gfortran.  There are a few new intrinsics
coming with F2023.  Perhaps, this might be a point of entry (pun
intended) for returning to gfortran hacking.

Katherine, your return will be most welcomed.

-- 
Steve