On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Brian Dolbec <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 04:27 -0200, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: > >> 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! >> > > Sure. With more people, it will be less demanding on each of us. > > I know myself I've only spent maybe half an hour in the code so far, and > still haven't finished it. The rest of the time I've spent in getting > established as lead. Also with more people being familiar with the > code, team decisions will help keep bad ideas from creeping in, etc.. > > Can you give us the link to any code you have (with g.o.g.o down) and a > brief summary of how it works please. The we can start to have a look > at it. Possibly come up with some better (if possible) ideas on > integrating it. > > P.S. add yourself to the project wiki page as a member.
I'm currently rewriting the patch. It does not seems to work with current master. Will send to the list asap. General description of the feature is here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/distpatch/ I'll migrate this page to the wiki soon. BR, Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
