[Scons-dev] Interested in contributing

[William Blevins]

As a fellow developer, I look forward to your pull requests.

V/R,
William

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Brian Cody <brian.j.cody at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everbody,
>
> My name is Brian Cody. I've been an embedded software engineer for 8
> years. I am accustomed to test driven development (cxxtest / google mock)
> in C++ , and I've also been developing in Python for five years. I have
> been an SCons user for about three years now and I've used it on multiple
> projects. My Python unit testing experience has less rigorous, though I am
> familiar with the unittest mocking infrastructure.
>
> In my professional work I've had to create workarounds for a couple of
> problems in SCons. One is the under implemented "exists" functionality for
> tools. (See issues 863, 1671, 3005). This one is actually impacting our
> development efficiency.
>
> The other workaround is for the os.chdir being used within SCons to set
> the working directory of launched processes instead of using the POpen
> option (issue 2597). This one isn't slowing us down but it's pretty odd
> that SCons doesn't support this today!
>
> I've been steeped in requirements analysis for years. I know the customer
> shouldn't go straight to the developer with requirements, and as I might be
> both I'm interested in talking to the person or people who serve as product
> owner(s). I'm also interested in seeing a prioritized backlog of work so I
> might hone my skills in a project such as SCons.
>
> Thanks for reading and I hope I can make some positive contributions to
> the project!
> -Brian
>
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