Hello everyone, I noticed that GSRC is in need of a maintainer and I would like to volunteer for that job.
My interest stems from some ideas that were forming in my head about how to do a source-based free GNU/Linux distribution. I thought I was clever but the more I started researching some of my ideas, I found that, like most good ideas, they had already been implemented years before in much more clever ways. I ran into GSRC on the GNU "Take Action" page, read the description and saw that it basically covers a lot of the ideas I was having (though GARStow is even closer since it aims to be a full package management system; I understand that GSRC is not intended to work as such). Rather than reinventing the wheel, I think my efforts would be better spent maintaining something that is already existing. Unfortunately, the reality is that I don't grok GNU Make yet. I understand it in general, of course, and I can certainly read Makefiles; I've been reading the GSRC code and I have a good understanding of what's going on. Nevertheless, I'd have to start out small, updating the existing packages, working to implement simpler packages that haven't been done yet, and only after a while try to tackle more complicated cases (hurd?) or implement new features. So, if that's not too great a handicap, I'll humbly submit my interest and patiently await your response. Regards, Brandon Invergo ps - I still think that GSRC would make a great foundation for a (separately maintained) source-based free GNU/Linux distribution! I'm not abandoning that idea...but we'll see how this goes first.
