On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kfir Lavi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > My name is Kfir Lavi, I'm 36 years old, father of a gorgeous child ;) > and a Linux user for about 8 years (I don't count really ;-). > I'm a Linux BSP developer here in Israel. > I started from LFS, and after few weeks I had a Pentium 100Mhz loaded with > X... > I'm a Gentoo user for few years now, and I'm interested in embedded, > catalyst and stuff > related to day to day desktop. At home we are working just on Gentoo, no > other OS installed there. > I'm experienced in cluster environments to embedded environments. I have > worked with Perl, Python and Ruby. > I do prefer Bash for day to day usage. I also do C programming that relate > to Kernel stuff. > In the last few month i did a lot of work using Catalyst, crossdev and > "embedded" in general. I'm using > Portage facilities for my own work internal use. As part of that, I did > some work on public ebuilds. > As work get more complicated, I find myself in need of packages that are > not always > maintained as I need them. > As a start I would like to start maintaining dev-libs/ace, as we are using > it in our systems a lot. > I have emailed Daniel Black, the current maintainer of ACE, about > changing ownership, but > because I'm not a gentoo dev, we can't do it. > I'm currently in a battle of shifting major company to Gentoo from vxworks > and Windriver. > Not easy, and because of that, I have been learning a lot of Gentoo > internals. This really > opened up my view about Portage and it's abilities. > My aim for the future is bringing Catalyst and Portage to an OnDemand > embedded (crossdev) state (Which is a lot to ask, but we'll take it step by > step). > > I would be happy if someone will find the time to mentor me to become a > Gentoo dev. > > More info about me: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/lavikfir > http://gentoo-what-did-you-say.blogspot.com/ > I'm a proxy maintainer of app-misc/utimer > http://github.com/kfirlavi/Amalia - Testbed for network testing > > Thanks, > Kfir > lavi.kfir at gmail... > IRC: kipibenkipod > Common guys, no one? ...
