[scummvm-devel] Introduction (dwa)

[Filippos Karapetis]

Welcome on board Donovan! :) Glad to have you around

Pleased to have helped merge your work in master!

Regards
Filippos

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:51 PM Hubert Maier via scummvm-devel <
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> Hi Donovan,
>
> Welcome to the madhouse...enjoy your stay...it's not that you're going to
> leave again...sane, that is :-D
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> On 24/06/2022, 16:44 Donovan Watteau via scummvm-devel <
> scummvm-devel at lists.scummvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> My name is Donovan, nick dwa/dwatteau (or also "Tsomi" many years ago;
>> here you can probably guess its meaning!).
>>
>> I live near Lille in the northern part of France (if you like French
>> fries, cheese and beer, I've seen things you wouldn't believe). I've
>> been a ScummVM user since... 2004? but it took me a bit of time to start
>> contributing :D
>>
>> I'm a sysadmin by day, so I just know enough C to plug into some simple
>> C++ code. My development skills are modest, but I like
>> tweaking/improving things, and being helpful where I can. I'm happy just
>> doing my small contributions through PRs, but sev says that I can be
>> helpful by rejoining the team, so why not! It means a lot to me to be
>> part of a project I've been using since I was a kid.
>>
>> My main interest is in the "historical" engines (scumm, agos, kyra,
>> saga...) but I also like testing some newer engines on some PowerPC or
>> MIPS machines I have here (if you need any big-endian test...). Lately,
>> I've been submitting some portability fixes, several small SCUMM script
>> fixes/enhancements, helping a bit with some Trac issues and
>> documentation, and trying to resurrect the Mac PowerPC port for the
>> 2.6.0 release. I also help maintaining the ScummVM port in OpenBSD.
>>
>> I also maintain the ScummTr translation tools on Github, which were
>> written by Hibernatus nearly 20 years ago. I've been using them to do my
>> own French (re)translations of the v3-v6 SCUMM games for more than 10
>> years, but all my translations get stuck at 70%, eh ;)
>>
>> Oh, and I'd also like to thank everyone who's made all my contributions
>> a very nice and welcoming experience so far, and Filippos in particular
>> for the time spent in many of my PRs :)
>>
>> Cheers!
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