John,
Certainly can review, happy also to noodle comments into documents. If you are up for elmering an crusty old dude on python 3 (with extremely rusty programming skills, I will emphasize) I will join any group you are mentoring.
I¡¯ll start by locating some online tutorials and go from there. Boxes available here are Win10/11 and ¡°RasDebian¡±. Got some other projects I want to understand better that are Python based so it all make sense.
Jack - KD4IZ
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On Dec 18, 2021, at 11:42, John E. Malmberg <wb8tyw@...> wrote:
?On 12/16/2021 10:21 AM, Dave Slotter, W3DJS wrote:
John,
I am speaking for other people I know as well as myself when I say that we're looking forward to a fully-functional Python3-compatible version of D-RATS.
In fact, I am the curator of HamPi, the ham radio software collection for the Raspberry Pi and I had to do some fancy things to get the traditional D-RATS running on the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian Bullseye.
Please let me know how I can help you out. Your contributions are heartily welcomed!
Testing my fork is probably helpful. I know that maps don't work yet, and I have the code being a bit more noisy on the logs as I try to figure out what is going on with it.
While I have been playing in my personal fork, I am wondering if anyone here wants to have me add them as reviewers for my PRs. I think you need a github account for me to do that.
While I can not promise to wait for reviews before merging a PR, I will try to respond to any feedback, and some of that can be good content for a wiki page.
This also gives notification of when something is ready for a tests, and why a change was needed.
I am not sure when I will have a significant update, as my next goal is getting a marker to display on the Map, and I found out last night I still have a bit of work to do on that. And I do not know how much time I will be able to spend on this over the holidays.
I am trying to make my changes to the python_tyw branch incremental and would like to use my as help for getting others up to speed on being able to contribute.
Even though I am a professional programmer, this is not the type of programming that I do at work, so I am having to learn a lot as I go.
73,
-John, wb8tyw
Jack Spitznagel (KD4IZ)