[gentoo-dev] I'm looking for a mentor

[gentoo-dev] I'm looking for a mentor

[Kfir Lavi]

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Hi all,
My name is Kfir Lavi, I'm 36 years old, father of a gorgeous child ;)
and a Linux user for about 8 years (I don't count really ;-).
I'm a Linux BSP developer here in Israel.
I started from LFS, and after few weeks I had a Pentium 100Mhz loaded with
X...
I'm a Gentoo user for few years now, and I'm interested in embedded,
catalyst and stuff
related to day to day desktop. At home we are working just on Gentoo, no
other OS installed there.
I'm experienced in cluster environments to embedded environments. I have
worked with Perl, Python and Ruby.
I do prefer Bash for day to day usage. I also do C programming that relate
to Kernel stuff.
In the last few month i did a lot of work using Catalyst, crossdev and
"embedded" in general. I'm using
Portage facilities for my own work internal use. As part of that, I did some
work on public ebuilds.
As work get more complicated, I find myself in need of packages that are not
always
maintained as I need them.
As a start I would like to start maintaining dev-libs/ace, as we are using
it in our systems a lot.
I have emailed  Daniel Black, the current maintainer of ACE,  about changing
ownership, but
because I'm not a gentoo dev, we can't do it.
I'm currently in a battle of shifting major company to Gentoo from vxworks
and Windriver.
Not easy, and because of that, I have been learning a lot of Gentoo
internals. This really
opened up my view about Portage and it's abilities.
My aim for the future is bringing Catalyst and Portage to an OnDemand
embedded (crossdev) state (Which is a lot to ask, but we'll take it step by
step).

I would be happy if someone will find the time to mentor me to become a
Gentoo dev.

More info about me:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/lavikfir
http://gentoo-what-did-you-say.blogspot.com/
I'm a proxy maintainer of app-misc/utimer
http://github.com/kfirlavi/Amalia - Testbed for network testing

Thanks,
Kfir
lavi.kfir at gmail...
IRC: kipibenkipod

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[gentoo-dev] I'm looking for a Mentor

[Alec Warner]

TL;DR, I think infra needs more people who can commit to ::gentoo and
thus, I am looking for an ebuild dev mentor. I myself had commit
access in the before times (probably 2010 - 2012) but have been mostly
ignoring ebuild development since then to focus on infra and the
Foundation. However infra is using more and more software that is
maintainer-needed and so we probably need to change our focus to
giving back more to the main tree.

-A

Re: [gentoo-dev] I'm looking for a Mentor

[Joonas Niilola]

On 12/18/20 7:19 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
> TL;DR, I think infra needs more people who can commit to ::gentoo and
> thus, I am looking for an ebuild dev mentor. I myself had commit
> access in the before times (probably 2010 - 2012) but have been mostly
> ignoring ebuild development since then to focus on infra and the
> Foundation. However infra is using more and more software that is
> maintainer-needed and so we probably need to change our focus to
> giving back more to the main tree.
>
> -A
>
You can start your training by filing Github PRs, as contributions to
maintainer-needed packages are mostly dealt with in there. ;)

-- juippis