Congratulations and welcome to the team, don't let all those people scare you, we're a pretty friendly bunch and willing to answer most questions. I'm new myself, still think the -releng crowd is really scary - why would you wish such nasty work upon yourself, the pressures and then the consequential hair pulling / goat abuse when you hit a mine in the road!
Tip: Don't break anything, or someone from Infra will break you. Alex On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 17:54 +0000, Tom Martin wrote: > Afternoon list, > > I'm happy to be able to announce another developer has joined the team. > His name is Eric Edgar, and some of you may know him as rocket on IRC. > Anyway, I'll let his mentor, Chris Gianelloni, do the talking: > > """ > Eric has been suckered into working for Release Engineering, doing > development for both catalyst and genkernel, and hopes to add proper Xen > support to Gentoo. He has already made some pretty amazing patches, > which you all will get to abuse as new capabilities on the 2005.0 > release. He codes in python, perl, bash, and some C, so if you guys > need a code monkey of your own, he's taken... ;] > > Eric comes from a planet we affectionately call Ppbbbb't, but that most > of you know as Minnesota, where he spends his days slaving as a Unix > Administrator for an unnamed telecommunications company. Eric is > engaged to be married in May. When he's not working or pleasing the > missus, he enjoys reading and going to movies, along with *gasp* > outdoors activities like snowmobiling, four-wheeling, and skydiving. > > He's been hanging around #-releng enough to know to fear the goats, but > he hasn't been hit with it quite yet, so we all can welcome him > "properly". > """ > > So, everyone give me and Chris a hand in welcoming Eric to the team. > > Cheers, > Tom -- [email protected] mailing list
