On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Brian Dolbec <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a general call for developers to join the portage development > team. > > aka: Recruiting Drive > > If you have some "Good" python and/or bash skills and want/need to or > already know portage's internals. WE NEED YOU! > > We have several non-developer contributors helping out, but it will be > very hard to match the productivity Zac has made over these past years. > > For those that don't already know, I've pushed out a new release today. > Portage-2.2.8 has made it to the tree with many bug fixes. Many of > which were fixed by contributors Sebastian Luther, Arfrever Frehtes > Taifersar Arahesis and Alexander Berntsen. A big "Thank You" to them for > helping to fill the gap. > > There are still more bugs to work on. More to pin down their cause, so > please help where you can. > > It seems for the immediate interim, I have somehow become temporary > lead. While I have too many projects on the go to get deep into portage > coding work at the moment. I will do what I can. For those that can > fix some things, please send patch submittals to the gentoo-portage-dev > mail list. There are several of us capable of reviewing the submissions > and when ready, merging them. > > Once we get an indication that new volunteers are no longer coming > forward to join. We will elect a new lead. > > Those interested in joining, please subscribe to the gentoo-portage-dev > list and send an email stating what you can offer and any ideas you have > to improve portage's code base. >
Hi Brian, I'm somewhat familiar with portage code, and want to help a bit too. My main target would be to integrate distpatch (distfile delta support, a.k.a. my work on gsoc 2011) with portage. I sent the patch to the list years ago, but it never got any reviews, etc. I'm going to rewrite it and add some tests, etc. Can I join the team? :) Thanks! -- Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
