Who am I?

I've been programming for about 17 years, have worked in a management consultancy across a wide variety of industries, from banking to a nuclear power plant. I specialise in integration systems (TIBCO/MQ) and have two masters degrees. I often contract to a Knowledge Management consultancy in Toronto.

Notable contributions include BeforeAttachmentSaveHandler, several plugins including the TWikiReleaseTrackerPlugin. I originated the CodevDocumentationProject. I recently built the extensions appraisal system.

What can I do?

Currently I am working on the RegisterCgiScriptRewrite, which moves the registration data off bullet fields on the users topics into FormFields, separates the notion of LoginName from WikiName, provides for BulkRegistration and BulkResetPassword, and a whole bunch more.

Why do I want to do it?

Details of the rewrite can be found in RegisterCgiScriptRewrite. I want access so I can create a live branch so people can test it and give objections.

This code has options to make it work consistently with the old version, plus it offers a lot more.

It really needs to be tested on a branch before merging with the rest of the codebase.

My view had been that ScratchBranch was a place to create branches, in a live, shared, but unit tested environment where people could agree on the functionality, design and implementation of a change before that change would be integrated into the live, shared, integration test environment we call DevelopBranch.

To me, neither DEVELOP nor SCRATCH are IntentionRevealing names. DEVELOP is not for DEVELOPMENT - AFAICT it means READY_FOR_MAIN (a gamma release). SCRATCH is worse - I'm now not at all clear what that is supposed to do.

I have every intention of supporting the integration process according to the developer responsibilities.

-- MartinCleaver - 08 Nov 2004

I discussed this with Martin, and it's clear that he had some misapprehensions about the purpose of SCRATCH and the required commitment to DeveloperResponsibilities. In the interests of wiping the slate clean again I suggested he delete the discussion back to the request for checkin access.

I'd like to offer support for Martin's request. I think he will be a valuable contributor, and will follow the process consistently. As is the case for anyone with checkin rights under the process, any changes he makes that are not favoured by the community can and will be reverted. We don't have the branch process worked out yet, so creating a branch is currently premature, but Martin's input to DEVELOP is still valued.

See MultiBranchDevelopmentModel for more on this.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 08 Nov 2004

Martin your TWikiUser user&password should now allow you to commit to DEVELOP & SCRATCH.

Welcome to DEVELOP

and a day early even, lucky you.

-- SvenDowideit - 10 Nov 2004

Thankyou.

-- MartinCleaver - 10 Nov 2004

Martin, you are a long time contributor. Welcome to develop!

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Aug 2005