My main contribution to the early (*really* early, I started with g95) 
intrinsics implementation was a lot of cutting-and-pasting and typing.  I just 
replicated functions fairly mindlessly and made appropriate substitutions.  But 
I hope at least that my copyright assignment paperwork is still in force.

Katherine Holcomb 
UVA Research Computing  https://www.rc.virginia.edu 
ka...@virginia.edu    434-982-5948 

-----Original Message-----
From: Fortran <fortran-bounces+kholcomb=virginia....@gcc.gnu.org> On Behalf Of 
Steve Kargl via Fortran
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2022 4:09 PM
To: Jerry D <jvdelis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f) <ka...@virginia.edu>; Jerry D via Fortran 
<fortran@gcc.gnu.org>; Benson Muite <benson_mu...@emailplus.org>; Harald Anlauf 
<anl...@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Team Collaboration Considerations

On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 12:10:20PM -0800, Jerry D wrote:
> On 12/8/22 11:14 AM, Holcomb, Katherine A (kah3f) via Fortran wrote:
> > I was thinking I might try to contribute when I retire, though that may be 
> > in a year or two.  But it's been a very long time since I dove into a large 
> > software project and it's intimidating.  I do know C (really C++, I haven't 
> > used plain C for a long time).   I am one of those "aging" types but I am 
> > familiar at least superficially with newer tools because I must use them 
> > for work, specifically git and Slack (Mattermost seems to be an open-source 
> > Slack alternative) -- we make heavy use of Slack in particular.
> > 
> > Is there some kind of "getting started" guide?
> > 
> > Katherine Holcomb
> > UVA Research Computing  https://www.rc.virginia.edu 
> > ka...@virginia.edu    434-982-5948
> > 
> 
> In your case I would recommend just pick a bug and start exploring it 
> with gdb and valgrind.  There is no need to learn the whole project.  
> If you want, we could pick one for you as a starter.  I will send you 
> an invite to the Mattermost so you can watch as we organize it.  One 
> thought we had is to use "boards" for categories of bugs and use it as 
> a way to triage the list of bugs (ideas evolving)
> 

Katherine's name appears in the copyright notice in intrinsic.h and 
intrinsic.c.  The overall design has not changed from when
g95 was imported to become gfortran.  There are a few new intrinsics coming 
with F2023.  Perhaps, this might be a point of entry (pun
intended) for returning to gfortran hacking.

Katherine, your return will be most welcomed.

--
Steve

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