Re: [gentoo-dev] Scheme herd team needs some love
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:33:15PM -0500, Matthew Kennedy wrote: If you have an interest in Scheme and the Gentoo project, I encourage you to go through the new developer process and start maintaining these Scheme ebuilds. I am interested in Scheme and the Gentoo project, but I am not a developer. As was posted on the latest GWN, maybe it would be a good idea to enter the recruiting process so that I would become a developer and help the scheme herd. I am a professor at the Computer Science department of an university on my country. As a professor I have interests on programming languages, in particular, functional programming languages. Currently I am at the end of a compiler construction course, and next I will start teaching an Object Oriented Programming course to Computer Science undergraduates. I hope I qualify to the job. José Romildo Malaquias -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Scheme herd team needs some love
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 06:47 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:33:15PM -0500, Matthew Kennedy wrote: If you have an interest in Scheme and the Gentoo project, I encourage you to go through the new developer process and start maintaining these Scheme ebuilds. I am interested in Scheme and the Gentoo project, but I am not a developer. As was posted on the latest GWN, maybe it would be a good idea to enter the recruiting process so that I would become a developer and help the scheme herd. I am a professor at the Computer Science department of an university on my country. As a professor I have interests on programming languages, in particular, functional programming languages. Yay! :-) We can always do with more people with an interest in functional programming languages. We have fairly strong Haskell and Caml teams but seem to be quite short on people interested in the untyped lisp-like functional languages. Currently I am at the end of a compiler construction course, and next I will start teaching an Object Oriented Programming course to Computer Science undergraduates. I also teach FP, compilers and OOP to undergraduates :-) I hope I qualify to the job. So you've clearly got great credentials. The process to qualify involves learning a lot about how Gentoo works, including management, ebuilds, portage, cvs and bug tracking. As others have said, the best way to start is to look at fixing some open bugs or contributing new ebuilds. You'll want to take a look at the Gentoo developer handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml In particular here is the section on becoming a developer: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1chap=2 -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Scheme herd team needs some love
Matthew Kennedy wrote: No one is working on the Scheme herd in Gentoo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] includes only me, but I'm not doing anything with Scheme and don't really care to either. Several of our Scheme implementations in Portage are out of date, (chicken, gambit, drscheme, bigloo and, dare I mention, guile). drscheme is not unmaintained or out of date, I am maintaining it. It has only one open bug, which is an enhancement request for a feature that doesn't compile in the current version. A quick search found a bug in one of it's deps that was assigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for some reason (the metadata.xml has the package assigned to no-herd). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Scheme herd team needs some love
Matthew Kennedy wrote: No one is working on the Scheme herd in Gentoo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] includes only me, but I'm not doing anything with Scheme and don't really care to either. Several of our Scheme implementations in Portage are out of date, (chicken, gambit, drscheme, bigloo and, dare I mention, guile). I have some slight interest in bumping guile to the latest version, because a package I maintain uses it. But that's as much as I'll get into it. Thanks, Donnie signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-dev] Scheme herd team needs some love
No one is working on the Scheme herd in Gentoo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] includes only me, but I'm not doing anything with Scheme and don't really care to either. Several of our Scheme implementations in Portage are out of date, (chicken, gambit, drscheme, bigloo and, dare I mention, guile). There are new ebuilds languishing in bugzilla which have yet to be added to Portage (scheme48, elk, tinyscheme. There are several bugs for build failures and dependency problems. If you have an interest in Scheme and the Gentoo project, I encourage you to go through the new developer process and start maintaining these Scheme ebuilds. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer (Public Key 0x401903E0) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
