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/

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