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 1N1cD5-00044l-7y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:42:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54113E0794; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Oberon.fixe-post.de (www.fixe-post.de [195.244.253.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17673E0794 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Venus.fixe-post.de (unknown [192.168.1.110]) by Oberon.fixe-post.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFF23F401A for ; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:42:45 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <761D5F7F-DA35-4788-B8ED-377AA30E3500@fixe-post.de> From: Robert Welz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: [gentoo-dev] how to become a package maintainer Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:42:48 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 9de33ea3-e47a-455a-b200-eccf8484c1a6 X-Archives-Hash: d075eec15ca86904357654d9eb456f3f I am a gentoo user and software developer for a quite a little while. I found out that I have some spare time and I like to prepare myself to become a package maintainer. Are there any links that provide volunteers with the neccessary know how of how to maintain a project? I have some money to buy a dedicated machine, preferrably an AMD 64. Projects could be something in C++ combined with networking or PHP/Perl stuff. Just in case I decide not to volunteer for private reasons these papers may be beneficial for others, too. Robert