OT - want to join other projects, any recommendations?

[Kev Jackson <fo...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

This is totally off-topic, apart from in a meta-sense of Ant being an  
open source project...

I'm finding that between work projects I still have loads of time to  
experiment, but that I lack a focus and direction for these  
experiments.  Usually this means that I stop coding and do something  
else (write, have a coffee etc).  But I'd like to really pick up C  
again (I'm so damn rusty with it), or move on to a completely  
different language (Haskell, Erlang, Lisp, Python etc) whilst  
contributing to an open source project so that my learning is always  
focused on the immediate problem - fix bug x, implement feature y etc.

So my question is - which projects do you guys get involved in and why?

I tried helping out with asterisk (again to polish my C), but they  
have a very strange dual-license model that I wasn't entirely  
comfortable with and they refused to accept patches for bugs in their  
issue tracker until I had signed a disclaimer/waiver - this seemed a  
little over the top, so I just dropped out.

Kev


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Re: OT - want to join other projects, any recommendations?

[Peter Reilly <pe...@gmail.com>]

I had meant rake!

Peter

On 6/20/06, Kev Jackson <fo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On 19 Jun 2006, at 21:12, Peter Reilly wrote:
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> > Ruby my friend ruby....
> >
> > look at rant
> >
> or rake which is also very very nice
>
> But I know ruby and I want to learn something different, hence my
> original question.
>
> Kev
> --
> "That government is best which governs not at all" - Henry Thoreau
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Re: OT - want to join other projects, any recommendations?

[Kev Jackson <fo...@gmail.com>]

On 19 Jun 2006, at 21:12, Peter Reilly wrote:

> Ruby my friend ruby....
>
> look at rant
>
or rake which is also very very nice

But I know ruby and I want to learn something different, hence my  
original question.

Kev
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Re: OT - want to join other projects, any recommendations?

[Paul King <ki...@asert.com.au>]

Peter Reilly wrote:
> Ruby my friend ruby....
> 
> look at [rake]

Yes, Ruby is OK but if you want to contribute to the project
in a meaningful way, Groovy/Ant/Grails/WebTest is a more fun
place to be (at least in my experience) at the moment. There
is still scope for fixing things which annoy you.

Cheers, Paul.



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Re: OT - want to join other projects, any recommendations?

[Peter Reilly <pe...@gmail.com>]

Ruby my friend ruby....

look at rant

Peter

On 6/19/06, Paul King <ki...@asert.com.au> wrote:
>
> Kev Jackson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is totally off-topic, apart from in a meta-sense of Ant being an
> > open source project...
>
> My favourites at the moment are:
> WebTest - an Ant extension with many extension for acceptance testing
> (mainly) web applications.
> Groovy - a neat scripting language (which can be used from Ant and also
> has an ant builder so that you can have script-oriented ant build files)
>
> Cheers, Paul.
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Re: OT - want to join other projects, any recommendations?

[Paul King <ki...@asert.com.au>]

Kev Jackson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is totally off-topic, apart from in a meta-sense of Ant being an 
> open source project...

My favourites at the moment are:
WebTest - an Ant extension with many extension for acceptance testing (mainly) web applications.
Groovy - a neat scripting language (which can be used from Ant and also has an ant builder so that you can have script-oriented ant build files)

Cheers, Paul.

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