I was wondering about that, how would you volunteer to assist with
porting new software to the portage tree?
I see that some software packages I would like to install (RT,
dotProject) are masked.
So I was wondering if anybody needed some assistance maintaining the
ports, or if maybe/probably my Gentoo skill set if not up to snuff?
Ennis McCaffrey
-Original Message-
From: Richard Broersma Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 12:07 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote:
I
personally still love Gentoo.
What's the problem then? :)
Another question would be, how many of us have made healthy progress in
our general knowledge of Linux all thanks to the gentoo user
guides/howto(s) and the time spent installing gentoo on our servers?
I really benefited from the cookbook approach that the user manual
takes. It gently opened my eyes to many lower level processes that were
always shielded from my eyes on many other distro's that I have used.
For this reason Gentoo will always hold a special place in my heart. :o)
However, I believe that gentoo's health is completely dependent on the
number of talented developers that devote much of their personal time
refining and debugging portage and it vast software tree. IMHO, if we
would like to see Gentoo maintain healthy growth, more of us happy less
experienced users should find ways to assisting the core developers by
relieving them from the more mundane redementry tasks. I am sure that
the portage tree is already large enough that it is a daunting challenge
for the limited number of developers to maintain it and keep it upto
date with new software releases.
Next time we see a call for assistance in the weekly news letter, we
would do well to spend a few hours each week answering that call.
Well that's my two cents anyway.
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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