Gerry,

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 05:25 -0400, Gerry Smith wrote:
> Hi William,
> 
> Just about to hit the road so just a brief reply, 
> Primarily we're looking for someone who really knows Gentoo and is
> strong on security who can take on our sys admin needs, and streamline
> how we do things etc.

Ok

> - we're outgrowing what we've currently got going on. So I appreciate
> you forwarding my post.

Petteri did that, but I am not sure the response you will get if any
from the current dev pool.

>  If someone's interested in doing this on contract, we'd be interested
> too.

If I had more EE experience I would talk with you. A local RH
employee/buddy has been talking to me about packaging JBoss on Gentoo
instead of Glassfish. I really haven't the need or use for either, and
made very little progress with JBoss.

> Like I said we use JBoss, so if they had experience of this it would
> be a plus. 

We did have some working on JBoss. Contributors, but they might have
become devs. Memory is not with me atm. But they are not in the US :(
Not sure how far along their work is. From source or not, deps package
or not. Pretty sure it's still a ways off of being ready for tree. Much
less stabilized or safe to use in production.

> I've been meaning to contribute to Gentoo JEE support but I'm just
> slammed as it is.
> If we hired someone full time who could take this on it could benefit
> our company and the community .Alternatively if my time was freed up a
> bit perhaps I could.

Anything that could be given back to Gentoo would be greatly
appreciated.

> We're going to need a JEE developer pretty soon too, at least someone
> who can understudy what we've got going on so we won't be totally
> stuck if a key person is indisposed (and we're all long-time skydivers
> here!), so right now if someone's out there who can do both and is
> looking for a job it could be a good fit.

You might want to post in our forums. I think there might be an
employment section or etc there. I don't believe we have a Gentoo job
posting board or project. Might be something to discuss or look into.

I have a feeling you will end up hiring someone from the community. Not
a current Gentoo developer. Which is fine, we have many in our community
that know Gentoo better than some devs. Once you hire them, any
persuasion to

> The best sys admins I know use Gentoo (and turned me onto it some time
> ago [my own background is JEE dev, electronic engineer before that]),
> I guess because you have to be prepared to go that extra mile, and I
> figured this would be a good place to look.

Sure, and if we can help find you someone. We would like to, just not
sure how many are out there with the skillset you seek. Gentoo skillz
yes, JBoss skillz np, both, not to common :)

> I hope that clarifies it a bit. Basically at the stage we're at right
> now we can juggle things a bit to suit the profile of a good
> applicant.

Yes, and hopefully you are able to find a qualified applicant, or more
than one :)

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation