Re: [gentoo-project] AT - SPARC and JAVA

[Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:59 +0000, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 22:18 +0100, Alex Buell wrote:
> >
> >> On the advice of Matts88 on IRC, I would like to volunteer to become an
> >> AT for the SPARC architecture, I am looking for a mentor to help take me
> >> through the process of becoming an AT on SPARC to help with JAVA. I have
> >> done some valuable work on SPARC with the aim of making JAVA usable on
> >> that architecture over the past year.
> >>
> >> I have completed the ebuild quiz and now waiting for a mentor to start
> >> the process.
> >
> > Oh dear, I need to apologise for the duplicated e-mails. To correct a
> > few things, it is Mattst88 who has advised me to e-mail the mailing list
> > directly and I am looking at becoming AT and maybe a developer.
> >
> > Thanks and sorry about the duplicated e-mails!
> >
> > Alex
> 
> Well, now that I can't claim no knowledge of this...
> 
> Alex is already an arch tester for SPARC, helping test packages and
> such. He's also interested in joining the Java team and has
> bootstrapped IcedTea on SPARC.
> 
> The SPARC team is pretty thin, so he's having a little trouble finding
> a mentor. armin76 and I have helped him a little with the ebuild quiz,
> which he has now completed. The ebuild quiz has not been reviewed by
> anyone to my knowledge.

Thanks, that's much appreciated. I am still interested in becoming a
developer, as I just discovered that I'm already an AT since 16th Feb
this year :-D
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