Gabor Szabo
has been using Perl since 1995 and teaching it since 2000. He has been involved in the Perl community since 2001 organizing local Perl Monger meetings and conferences. Gabor is providing Perl development and training services bot in in-house automation and test automation.
Why are you involved in Padre?
I started the development of Padre as I believe Perl needs better tools both for those who use it as a secondary tool and also for those who write large projects with or without 10 years of experience in Perl. I also hope it can be a springboard to learn Perl 6. I used to use vim and gvim both on Linux and Windows but since the first release of Padre I have been using it almost exclusively.
Aaron 'TEEJAY' Trevena
Why are you involved in Padre?
I've been using emacs since the mid-90s (although I'm no expert) and have never been able to find anything else I can work happily with, but elisp makes my brane hurt, and cperl-mode struggles with the increasingly large and complex perl applications I've been building recently - I'm looking for an alternative.
Because Padre is easily extendable in a language I speak almost natively (Perl), and because it's lighter and faster than most of the other GUI editors I've tried, it's not only my best hope of replacing emacs, but also fun and immediately rewarding to hack on both the editor itself and plugins.
Although I don't use Padre for day-to-day development, I will be soon - once I'm happy with version control integration and emacs keymapping, I'll be switching to it full time (which is 7.5 hours a day, 340 days a year).
What are you hacking on?
I've done some small mods to Padre itself to enable further work on keymapping in plugins, I'm working on the EmacsMode plugin that provides emacs style keymapping, and plan on integrating Autodia through another plugin some time soon.
Steffen Müller
doesn't think he's all that interesting. If you must know, he's a physicist who enjoys writing non-physics software in his spare time.
Why are you involved in Padre?
I'm the maintainer of the PAR suite of modules. Originally, I wanted to use the opportunity of a new application to create a PAR-based plugin system. Then I had a drink with Gabor at YAPC::EU 2009 in Copenhagen. That's where it went downhill...
More seriously, I simply enjoy being able to modify and customize the tools I use to get work done.
What are you hacking on?
I designed the concurrency system around Padre::Task, put together the PAR support for plugins, and wrote most of the Perl-specific refactoring support code using Adam's wonderful PPI module. Adding more "smart" refactoring tools is currently my highest priority.
Jérôme Quelin
is enjoying programming perl
Why are you involved in Padre?
i've been long using vi, them emacs, then vi again. i always wanted a perl ide, designed around perl programming - and not added as an after thought. padre has a huge potential wrt this expectation. and being programmed in perl allows me to fix what i dislike in it...
What are you hacking on?
when i'm working on padre (which happens by bursts), i'm touching a lot of different parts of the codebase: the plugin manager and the sessions are my fault, so is the i18n plugin api. i'm fixing stuff that annoy me, try to sanitize fishy stuff (removing circular dependencies, etc) and document things that i'm forced to dig into... generally, i'm checking the bug tracker on a regular basis and try to pick & close random bugs. i also contributed a few plugins, and maintain padre's french translation.
Andrew Bramble
is still exercising the liberty to not run a homepage, twitter, blog etc.
Why are you involved in Padre?
Stunned at what had already been achieved with padre 0.2, I felt it deserved the momentum. I am compelled to make Pod / Doc browser work respectably.
What are you hacking on?
Padre::DocBrowser and it's guts the replacement of PodFrame.Lots of differing ways to search and index data, KinoSearch is looking very promising and in perl terms PPI and Pod-Abstract are my new best friends. Currently bitbashing and string mashing an index of this just for fun.
Ahmad M. Zawawi
I am a full-time Java programmer who enjoys playing with Perl in his free time. I like the creative freedom, challenges and valuable experience that open source projects provide to programmers out there for FREE!
Why are you involved in Padre?
I was working on a Perl 6 syntax highlighter when i heard about Gabor's TPF Perl 6 Grant. Naturally, i offered to help out and now i am the co-maintainer of Padre::Plugin::Perl6 with him. My goal is to co-develop a state-of-the-art Perl 6 IDE.
What are you hacking on?
I am re-writing Syntax::Highlight::Perl6 to provide better PPI-like API. Afterwards, we can provide better Perl 6 refactoring support. I also wrote Padre::Plugin::Ecliptic to support my ambitious goal of porting useful Eclipse features into Padre.
Cezary Morga
... is a UNIX system administrator using Perl for fun and profit.
Why are you involved in Padre?
Because I'm bored with constant quarrels how Perl belongs to the past and that it don't even have an IDE. I think supplying the IDE written in Perl itself is appropriate answer for such accusations.
As for how I got involved, Gabor made me :) He gave me a commit bit!
What are you hacking on?
I'm writing small pieces of code here and there, like in Run or Find/Replace parts. Apart from that, I'm maintaining Padre port for FreeBSD.