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

[Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Common guys, no one? ...

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