[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

[Pavel Kazakov]

Hi everyone,

I saw the email sent to the dev mailing list asking for help on portage.
I'm not sure how much interest the post has generated, but if help is
still needed, I'd be more than willing to help out. I have good
familiarity with bash and python (I use both extensively at work). I'm
not too familiar with portage's internals but willing to learn.

If help is still needed, is there any documentation for starting
development or any good pointers for me to get started?

Regards,
Pavel

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

[Brian Dolbec]

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On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 16:53 -0800, Pavel Kazakov wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I saw the email sent to the dev mailing list asking for help on portage.
> I'm not sure how much interest the post has generated, but if help is
> still needed, I'd be more than willing to help out. I have good
> familiarity with bash and python (I use both extensively at work). I'm
> not too familiar with portage's internals but willing to learn.
> 
> If help is still needed, is there any documentation for starting
> development or any good pointers for me to get started?
> 
> Regards,
> Pavel
> 

Welcome.  There have been several so far, but, the more the better.
It will take the load off any one individual.  We all (well, most) have
real lives that we also need to attend to.  ;)

For best the best documentation, enable the epydoc use flag and
re-emerge portage.  

There are several bugs to start working on.  Also there are some gleps
that need to be attended to.  See the email Sebastian has sent out with
a number of open bugs.  

I will be laying out a plan for the sync operations change I am
proposing to do.  If we can come to an agreement on that, then there
will also be that to implement.

So for now, join, start delving into the code, see what you can do.
Ask questions...

We will need to establish some meetings after some newcomers have had a
bit of time to see what needs doing.  We can start making some decisions
then.

Thank you.
-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

[Pavel Kazakov]

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On 01/07/2014 08:02 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
>
> Welcome.  There have been several so far, but, the more the better.
> It will take the load off any one individual.  We all (well, most) have
> real lives that we also need to attend to.  ;)
>
> For best the best documentation, enable the epydoc use flag and
> re-emerge portage. 
>
> There are several bugs to start working on.  Also there are some gleps
> that need to be attended to.  See the email Sebastian has sent out with
> a number of open bugs. 
>
> I will be laying out a plan for the sync operations change I am
> proposing to do.  If we can come to an agreement on that, then there
> will also be that to implement.
>
> So for now, join, start delving into the code, see what you can do.
> Ask questions...
>
> We will need to establish some meetings after some newcomers have had a
> bit of time to see what needs doing.  We can start making some decisions
> then.
>
> Thank you.

Thanks! I will get myself familiar with the code base and then start
hacking on the list of issues Sebastian has sent out.

Regards,
Pavel
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[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead

[Brian Dolbec]

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On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 21:33 -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> This is a general call for developers to join the portage development
> team.
> 
> aka:  Recruiting Drive
> 
> If you have some "Good" python and/or bash skills and want/need to or
> already know portage's internals. WE NEED YOU!
> 

I want to thank all those that responded to my call (read cry) for
help :D  I think we have enough people that once everyone is more
familiar with portage.   It will be less likely to be in trouble if
someone disappears from the project.

Our team is now, I think quite well rounded, with interests in different
areas of portage and it's utilities. 

We have also converted most of the old www.gentoo.org project pages to
the wiki [1], still a few more to go.

The portage team is now:

Brian Dolbec (dolsen)...........Interim lead, Public API
Mike Frysinger (vapier).........sandbox, etc.
Thomas Sachau (Tommy[D])........multilib portage
Ulrich Müller (ulm).............PMS liason
GrobianFabian Groffen (grobian).Prefix portage
Sebastian Luther (few_).........bug squashing machine ;)
Tom Wijsman (TomWij)............Repoman
Rafael Martins (rafaelmartins)..Distfile delta support
Matthew Thode (promehteanfire)
Pavel Kazakov (Nullishzero)
Jesus Rivero (neurogeek)
Chris Reffett (creffett)
Alec Warner (antarus)...........Code review, security
Zac Medico (zmedico)............Former lead, currently devaway
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (Arfrever)
Vladimir Romanov (blueboar)......Russian Translation

and 2 more contributing members

Alexander Berntsen (bernalex)
Douglas Dunn (djdunn)

Of course we still accept patches sent to the portage-dev list :)

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage
-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>

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