I have been using TWiki for some years now. Instead of reading the documentation, i usually dive in to the code to find out what i am doing wrong. In the process i sometimes find bugs, that i then usually fix (or discuss, in case a fix is not obvious).
, doing web site development, embedded systems and AI (linguistics).
I am active in local and national politics in The Netherlands, as a volunteer for a political party called GroenLinks, which is translated as GreenLeft.
I have a technical background, started coding when i started to read. Did basic, assembly, c, c++, shell scripts and some of the recent scripting languages (perl, python, php, m4, ...). And probably a ton of obscure languages i forgot to mention.
I can think logically and pinpoint where in the system things go wrong. I am a perl programmer, and i am very committed to TWiki. With my company, i've been doing quite a lot of maintenance programming, taking over projects that others have developed. This has given me an insight in how other people code, and thus made me efficient in reading and modifying third party code.
My motivation 'TWiki has given me so much, i want to give back'. I am motivated to help the continued success of TWiki, and even prepared to pick up some of the more boring things that just need to be done.
After meeting a part of the community in Rome, i feel i want to be part of that.
I am committed to Crawfords work on unit tests, and am convinced that they are paramount in maintaining TWiki's quality standards. With the test cases, regression testing becomes possible. There is a backlog of unit tests that i'd like to help eliminate, so that more and more is described in terms of these tests.
On the short term, i'd like to help out in getting 4.2.0 out of the door. Which means i would need checkin rights on MAIN or any other branch Kenneth Lavrsen decides to create.
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It is so great that we now have you on the team Koen.
and fully support this request.
Koen, I've given you full svn commit rights - looking forward to more of your energy