Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 26 May 2016 09:10:12 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > You'll spend a while getting used to git, there's no way around it. You > just have to pick a project and force yourself to use git all day. All > of the commands have the wrong names: > > * Want to check out a repository? There's `git

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/26/2016 04:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Aye, there's the rub. Git is a closed book to me at the moment. Having to > learn how to use it would at least triple my time to get up to speed. Time, > I have plenty of (DV, as they say in religious circles), but my brain > doesn't go nearly

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/26/2016 05:03 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 26 May 2016 09:32:26 I wrote: > >> Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile. > > Already I have an elementary question: what editors are recommended for this > kind of work? Other than vim and emacs, that is, either of which

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2016 09:32:26 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > These days it's a lot easier to get practice because you don't have to > > deal with CVS. If you clone our git repo as your $PORTDIR, then you > > can make your changes and `repoman commit` just like the rest of us. > > If you're okay

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 26 May 2016 09:32:26 I wrote: > Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile. Already I have an elementary question: what editors are recommended for this kind of work? Other than vim and emacs, that is, either of which would involve yet another acute learning process. -- Rgds

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 25 May 2016 18:19:38 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be > > willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package > > maintenance. As I've said many times in

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 May 2016 10:48:48 +1000, Sam Jorna wrote: > I'll also mention the Proxy Maintainers project[0] here. Yes this is > intended to facilitate people taking maintainership of a package, but my > point is that there is a project dedicated to facilitating contributors > without push access

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-25 Thread Sam Jorna
On 26/05/16 08:19, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be >> willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package maintenance. >> As I've said many times in recent years, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-25 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be >> willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package maintenance. >> As I've said many times in recent years, my days of coding expired

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be > willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package maintenance. > As I've said many times in recent years, my days of coding expired about 25 > years ago,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 May 2016 23:39:08 Dale wrote: > Forwarded Message > Subject: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot > Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:45:55 +0200 > From: Michał Górny > Reply-To: gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org >

[gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

2016-05-22 Thread Dale
Forwarded Message Subject:[gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:45:55 +0200 From: Michał Górny Reply-To: gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org I'm