From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMVHe-0001Au-NZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2011 01:10:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67BB51C0D4; Wed, 18 May 2011 01:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay06.ispgateway.de (smtprelay06.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.102]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D781C012 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 01:10:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.0.149] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by smtprelay06.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1QMVH2-0005uV-6V; Wed, 18 May 2011 03:10:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4DD31C6B.4030207@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 03:10:03 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110508 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org CC: genkernel Subject: [gentoo-dev] Genkernel needs more hands Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: sping-gentoo@binera.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1b532454b668bc259d00e61b591f1702 Hello, Genkernel's situation (reduced to the three currently most active players) looks like this to me: - aidecoe - is focussed on the transition to Dracut and related things - is fixing bugs in present genkernel from time to time - xake - is fixing bugs in the current genkernel releases - likes his patches to be reviewed - cannot do releases as he has no developer account, yet - sping (me) - writes and applies patches from time to time. (Commitment varies, at a low right now.) - has never used half of the many technologies involved himself (iSCSI, dmraid, netboot, ...) - is the bottleneck on some reviews and releases There are various bugs around, some just need attention, some could use insider knowledge that we lack. Furthermore the kernel configs shipped by Genkernel are mainly from a time before the three of us took over and need fixes, a concept and documentation too. There is no test suite (virtual machines?) that I knew of catching regressions (of which we had few only, in that light). Nevertheless genkernel has fun aspects: it's in much better shape than 3.4.10.907 was, including documentation. It's a core Gentoo tool used by quite a few people so the work you do on Genkernel matters. With that in mind: Are you interested in joining Genkernel? Thanks, Sebastian