Teleidoscope

Wed, Jun 20, 2007

Directions

Posted at 10:02 pm MDT to Code

I'm putting in a lot of hours this week. This is the second day in a row that urgent stuff has come up in the late afternoon and I wound up working late. We're trying to get a release out on Saturday, so taking our time isn't really an option.

On the other hand, a couple of things have happened that are good for my morale --

First,someone at google.com saw my resume on-line and asked if I would be interested in discussing a job with them. I'm probably not interested, but ... Google! And it's always flattering to have someone come to you instead of you going out looking for them. (I wrote back asking if they had a Colorado office... I've never heard of one, but it seemed worth asking. Google!)

Also, I learned from LWN (Linux Weekly news) that the Linux kernel developers are discussing a need for someone to periodically scan the kernel source code and identify error messages and such for reformatting, to support documentation and translation. It's been about 15 years since I was primarily a C programmer (Wow. Time flies) but I've got the skills (and the obsessive-compulsiveness) to handle a task like this. So I wrote to ask how to volunteer for the project, if and when it gets off the ground. It would be neat to be a Linux kernel hacker, even in a very peripheral capacity.

I'm re-joining the kernel mailing list tonight, just in case. I followed it for a while a few years ago, but the volume and level of technicality were more than I had time to deal with.

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