User:Niffiwan

Who am I?

246... no.

I do some coding for the Source code project. I also help out with forum support, and write the coding section of the HLP newsletter.

I'm most interested in:

• Supporting Linux
• Improving the robustness of the codebase (e.g. see Coverity / Address Sanitiser / PVS studio)
• Fixing bugs
• Code reviews to get other peoples features added to FSO, i.e. maintain their momentum (although I feel that this really turns my brain to mush if I do it for too long :))
• git :D

The areas of the code I'm most familiar with are:

• New pilot code (antipodes 8 / 3.7.0+)
• HUD gauges
• ETS

Features I'd most like to add to FSO are:

(TODO: make this a table with what/why/how columns)

• Case insensitivity everywhere (for Linux) http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=81134.0
• 7z archive support (in progress by m!m)
• SVG support (especially for HUD gauges)
• APNG support (see KickStarter)
• wxFRED
• (maybe) libVLC for all our video playing needs? lGPLv2

Short Term

(gah! too much stuff on here already :()

Review patches in these threads:

• http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=84567.0 (Yarn - hud extras)

Fix this issue - not really a bug, maybe a feature?

• http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=86938.msg1737431#msg1737431

Get the FONT code reviewed

• http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=85041.new#new (somewhere in here)

JSON ship/weapon table dump

• http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=87497.msg1748691#msg1748691

Command line pruning (something should be done about this! New Options Menu HO!)

• http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=86256.0

Add option to make HUD message text clearer (and maybe also add alpha/transparency options for hud gauges?)

• http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=88044.msg1757287#msg1757287

memory overflow

• git log --pretty=format:"%h%x09%an%x09%ad%x09%s" --date=short --after=2014-01-31