From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECC721387FD for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2014 20:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86BA4E0942; Sat, 7 Jun 2014 20:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E5F7E0895 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2014 20:58:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-74-77-145-97.buffalo.res.rr.com [74.77.145.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B150833FD6E for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2014 20:58:10 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53937D2A.5000304@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:59:22 -0400 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 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 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The state and future of the OpenRC project References: <20140607201920.0e0ccd5c@gentoo.org> <53937778.7020604@sporkbox.us> In-Reply-To: <53937778.7020604@sporkbox.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aa6b0af6-762a-4d17-b103-b5dc90998a45 X-Archives-Hash: 6d3362447a64aab59754566fa016cc18 On 06/07/14 16:35, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 06/07/2014 01:19 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> Hello developers and users >> >> The OpenRC project appears less active these days than it used to be. >> >> There are many commits per month the last years, but the amount of >> commits in 2014 per month has noticeably decreased to a crawl [1]. >> Alongside that, there appears to be around ~100 bugs open for OpenRC >> [2] on Gentoo Bugzilla; some of which are left without a response. >> >> This gives the impression that the development of it is slowing down. >> >> Worth noting is that WilliamH recently had problems with his system, we >> have since not seen him on IRC for almost a month; so, this can for a >> part explain the last month of inactivity. Although the other months of >> 2014 and even 2013 to some extent show a decreasing trend. >> >> The state and future of the OpenRC project could be of concern. >> >> Therefore this call for general awareness; such that people that are >> interested in this project can help, discuss measures to help the users >> of these bugs as well as ensure the future of the OpenRC project. >> >> Thank you in advance. >> >> >> [1]: Short log of proj/openrc history, decreasing commits in 2014. >> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/openrc.git;a=shortlog >> >> [2]: Overview of bugs that involve OpenRC, most for the package itself. >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=openrc >> >> >> Disclaimer: Just to be sure, I'm not affiliated with the OpenRC project. >> > As someone who's been in the process of trying to become a developer and > someone who believes there should be multiple init systems, I'd like to > step forward and offer my assistance. pchrist was originally my mentor, > but unforeseen circumstances came up and he's become mostly unable to > mentor me. We discussed this and agreed that maybe I should find another > developer to mentor me. I think working on OpenRC would be a great > learning experience for me and would be a great opportunity to > contribute to Gentoo. > > If you or another developer would like to take up mentoring me so I can > achieve my goal of becoming a Gentoo developer and contribute, please > reply and cc pchrist@g.o so we can coordinate things. I still have my > ebuild test file floating around as well. > > I hope this doesn't come off as spammy; I'd honestly like to contribute > and keep choice alive in the init system space. > > Sincerely, > > Daniel Campbell > Related to this, I'd like to take care of sys-apps/gentoo-functions in WilliamH's absence. There's a couple of items to fix and I'd like to get them done. Any objections? -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA