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

[Rafael Goncalves Martins <rafaelmartins@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org> 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!
>
> We have several non-developer contributors helping out, but it will be
> very hard to match the productivity Zac has made over these past years.
>
> For those that don't already know, I've pushed out a new release today.
> Portage-2.2.8 has made it to the tree with many bug fixes.  Many of
> which were fixed by contributors Sebastian Luther, Arfrever Frehtes
> Taifersar Arahesis and Alexander Berntsen. A big "Thank You" to them for
> helping to fill the gap.
>
> There are still more bugs to work on.  More to pin down their cause, so
> please help where you can.
>
> It seems for the immediate interim, I have somehow become temporary
> lead.  While I have too many projects on the go to get deep into portage
> coding work at the moment.  I will do what I can.  For those that can
> fix some things, please send patch submittals to the gentoo-portage-dev
> mail list.  There are several of us capable of reviewing the submissions
> and when ready, merging them.
>
> Once we get an indication that new volunteers are no longer coming
> forward to join.  We will elect a new lead.
>
> Those interested in joining, please subscribe to the gentoo-portage-dev
> list and send an email stating what you can offer and any ideas you have
> to improve portage's code base.
>

Hi Brian,

I'm somewhat familiar with portage code, and want to help a bit too.
My main target would be to integrate distpatch (distfile delta
support, a.k.a. my work on gsoc 2011) with portage. I sent the patch
to the list years ago, but it never got any reviews, etc. I'm going to
rewrite it and add some tests, etc.

Can I join the team? :)

Thanks!

-- 
Rafael Goncalves Martins
Gentoo Linux developer
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/