On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:10:04 +0800 Evgeniy Philippov <egphilip...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, FTR, I copied your 2nd email in below. > <egphi> I have strong exp. with asm and many-years exp. with c/c++ > <egphi> also expert many-years exp. with java > <egphi> including a lot of hardware and drivers exp. > <egphi> how can i help? > <egphi> i have a lot of time---not currently employed > <egphi> and have no strict plans to be employed > <mtjm> I think such experience would be useful for mipsel, otherwise > gNS developers use mostly shell or Python > <egphi> what's mipsel? > <mtjm> the port to machines with MIPS-like Loongson 2F CPUs > <egphi> i could learn shell and python too - almost zero exp. now > <egphi> i have no loongson machine currently. should i buy it? or how? > <egphi> or what references should i read? > <mtjm> maybe adapting some packages removed from gNewSense to > reinclude them could need some C experience > <mtjm> samgee can answer your questions, he is the main developer of > the new archive scripts > <egphi> is it OK to forward this discussion to the dev maillist, so > that samgee would be able to assign some work? including reading docs > work. > <mtjm> it should be OK On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:20:10 +0800 Evgeniy Philippov <egphilip...@gmail.com> wrote: > Though I'd prefer extending a low-level (asm&hardware) experience > over extending a high-level exp (e.g. bash/python/.deb). I could > easily invest in a new home machine if that's relatively affordable. If we are emailing in IRC logs ;) < Kamping_Kaiser> egphi: experience with c will probably be useful for helping free packages. for example https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?34578 where the sha implementation would need replacing < Kamping_Kaiser> egphi: in instances like that its worth checking the debian packages then upstreams latest source to see if its been done before and you can 'just' backport a replacement file There are lots of bugs like 34578 - just search 'free' in our bugtracker to see a list of packages needing to be freed. Most of should be blacklisted in gNS already, so freeing it would allow it to re-enter the distro. The canonical list is [1] (which I've just pulled out of the "How can I help?" thread [2] which is running in parallel to this :)) [1] http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/metad/annotate/head:/parkes/blacklist.needsclean [2] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2012-02/msg00000.html thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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