From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j25DNZHO012487 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:23:35 GMT Received: from cefni.aber.ac.uk ([144.124.16.40]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D7ZFm-0004P8-5L for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:23:34 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=cefni.aber.ac.uk) by cefni.aber.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7ZFm-0008Hh-6d for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:23:34 +0000 Received: from pjmvlp1agh4.pjmv.aber.ac.uk ([144.124.208.230]) by cefni.aber.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D7ZEw-0008Fm-8B for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:22:42 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Eric Edgar (rocket) From: Alex Howells To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050304175424.GA10468@pohl.lj.net> References: <20050304175424.GA10468@pohl.lj.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:22:32 +0000 Message-Id: <1110028952.10012.19.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sophos-Scanned: from astinus@gentoo.org virus scanned OK X-UWA-Mid: 1D7ZEw-0008Fm-8B X-UWA-Originating-IP: 144.124.208.230 X-UWA-Bounce-Filter: lhgVcg3MRsI X-Archives-Salt: 67e3f1fd-d6bf-4759-912b-4a7d2c34e0e4 X-Archives-Hash: 7b94f70e33ee3e680300868c719bbf1a 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list