Journal TheRaven64's Journal: Wow, I Need to Get a Life 5
This weekend (I think, maybe earlier), Slashdot published some statistics about the most active people. Apparently I am in the top four most active commenters for the past month and the past quarter. This is quite depressing.
In happier, and unrelated news, my FreeBSD commit bit was approved this weekend, so I can now cause untold destruction on the Internet at large...
Nothing to worry about (Score:2)
Just do what you want and have fun
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define life (Score:3)
Congratulations. Being an active part of a very active community is an achievement.
I just hit 45,000 Wikipedia edits, if that makes you feel any better.
Congratulations (Score:3)
Congratulations! No small achievement, both of them. What are you going to be working on for FreeBSD?
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I was paid by the FreeBSD Foundation to implement the xlocale APIs for libc. Pretty much all of the libc functions that use a locale now have a _l variant that takes an explicit locale_t, and they all now use per-thread locales, rather than the global one, if one is set.
The point of this was to make porting libc++ easier, since libc++ (originally being developed on Darwin) uses these APIs for all of its locale stuff. I also wrote / maintain libcxxrt, which slots in under libc++. I have a huge FreeBSD