[gentoo-dev] I'm looking for a mentor
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
[gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
All, at long last, we have an openrc stable candidate. This means we need more testers. We need some people who are still using baselayout-1 to migrate to baselayout-2 and openrc to make sure that still is successful. Also, we need developers to upgrade to openrc-0.8.1 and let us know if there are issues. Here is my plan, if there are no major issues. On 5/1, I will commit a news item which I will post later today for review. It was originally written by fauli, but I have reworded it slightly. Assuming that things go well, I will be pushing for stabilization of baselayout-2 and openrc on 5/8. This plan will also be posted on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295613 very shortly. If there are any issues with this, let me know. William pgpTkUk3Afk7m.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
On 04/12/11 16:56, William Hubbs wrote: All, at long last, we have an openrc stable candidate. Thanks to all who kept chiseling away at this issue - it's nice to see that we still can get things done, even if it sometimes takes a week or hundred more than initially planned. I hope it all goes well! -- Patrick Lauer http://service.gentooexperimental.org Gentoo Council Member and Evangelist Part of Gentoo Benchmarks, Forensics, PostgreSQL, KDE herds
Re: [gentoo-dev] Using Jabber for developer communication
Le dimanche 10 avril 2011 à 17:58 -0400, Mike Frysinger a écrit : On Sunday, April 10, 2011 08:15:01 Alex Legler wrote: On 4/10/11 2:11 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:06:56 +0200 Alex Legler wrote: On 4/10/11 1:00 PM, Dmitry Dzhus wrote: When will Gentoo switch over to glorious and progressive Jabber from outdated and obsolete IRC? After we've moved gentoo.org to myspace.com/gentoo. Myspace is passé. I think cool kids use facebook nowadays. You successfully missed the joke. (And please don't CC the senders when replying to the list) fix your mail client -mike fixing like not hitting reply-to-all but only reply ? I've seen you say this a couple of times but I'm wondering if the message is properly targeted. -- Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org Gentoo
Re: [gentoo-dev] Using Jabber for developer communication
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:36:42 Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: Le dimanche 10 avril 2011 à 17:58 -0400, Mike Frysinger a écrit : On Sunday, April 10, 2011 08:15:01 Alex Legler wrote: On 4/10/11 2:11 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:06:56 +0200 Alex Legler wrote: On 4/10/11 1:00 PM, Dmitry Dzhus wrote: When will Gentoo switch over to glorious and progressive Jabber from outdated and obsolete IRC? After we've moved gentoo.org to myspace.com/gentoo. Myspace is passé. I think cool kids use facebook nowadays. You successfully missed the joke. (And please don't CC the senders when replying to the list) fix your mail client fixing like not hitting reply-to-all but only reply ? no, like getting a real mail client that condenses duplicate msg ids I've seen you say this a couple of times but I'm wondering if the message is properly targeted. not everyone receives e-mails from the list -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-dev] no more time for SynCE
On Seg, 2011-04-11 at 17:33 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 04/11/2011 03:01 AM, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, Since I posted about looking for help[1] I'm sad to say I've barely touched SynCE. Family commitments have changed, and I'm studying again for the degree I started 10 years ago! I'm therefore asking to be removed as the proxy for Synce. Hopefully this means it won't die in Gentoo :) Massive thanks to everyone who helped with my bad ebuild programming and testing along the way - volker, mescalinum, ssuominen, the SynCE team and everyone else. The original testing overlay remains here[2] for anyone who wants to take it over, just contact the SynCE dev team. If there are any questions please cc me directly as I may not be on the -dev list much more. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/69230 [2] https://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/dist/gentoo many thanks! np We should have all of SynCE in Portage again, except for the GNOME bits like synce-trayicon (hardcoded depend on sys-apps/hal) and the KDE bits (haven't even looked). Just by pulling synce-sync-engine as well as synce-connector the deps should get pulled in - No need for a meta package. The overlay was, when I last checked entirely uncompatible with the packages in tree as well as has confusing amount of deprecated ebuilds. I would love if someone could wipe it clean so people stop accidentally shooting themself in the foot with it. I'll add the synce-trayicon to tree soon as upstream produces a HAL-free version of it... And it's up the KDE team to add the KDE bits if they want. Hello, I want to help in sanitizing the overlay and bring the ebuilds into portage. We can see that next weekend if you have the time. Regards, -- Angelo Arrifano (miknix) Developer / GPE maintainer http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix http://miknix.homelinux.com
[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
Patrick Lauer posted on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:08:32 +0200 as excerpted: On 04/12/11 16:56, William Hubbs wrote: at long last, we have an openrc stable candidate. Thanks to all who kept chiseling away at this issue From a user who has been following developments since the baselayout 1.13 era, with the bugs filed and ultimately fixed to prove it... It really feels good to be this close, as for awhile I wondered if there'd forever be that gap between ~arch and stable. It really did take a number of people a monumental amount of effort to bridge that gap, and we owe them a lot of gratitude for it, the more so as we see all that effort paying off. =:^) Thanks! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] dodoc creating a symlink to distfiles?
ZM It's a side-effect from this fix which makes dodoc preserve symlinks ZM http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=2e334d77e3d1836ab6ba5dfc1700e90f9599d4d3 ZM http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=de9a536f470919651e83ece51923594e8605781b Confirmed working: /usr/share/doc/minisat-2.2.0-r2/MiniSat.pdf --- replaced sym /usr/share/doc/minisat-2.2.0-r2/MiniSat.pdf -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] dodoc creating a symlink to distfiles?
On 04/12/2011 10:38 AM, James Cloos wrote: ZM It's a side-effect from this fix which makes dodoc preserve symlinks ZM http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=2e334d77e3d1836ab6ba5dfc1700e90f9599d4d3 ZM http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=de9a536f470919651e83ece51923594e8605781b Confirmed working: /usr/share/doc/minisat-2.2.0-r2/MiniSat.pdf --- replaced sym /usr/share/doc/minisat-2.2.0-r2/MiniSat.pdf -JimC Great! Thanks for testing. -- Thanks, Zac
