From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6Vie-0006PM-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:24:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4515A1C024; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound-queue-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (outbound-queue-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net [212.11.70.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B1271C024 for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound-edge-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (bonnie.gradwell.net [212.11.70.2]) by outbound-queue-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0895220A5; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 23:23:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from 94-195-235-36.zone9.bethere.co.uk (HELO lithium.local.net) (94.195.235.36) (smtp-auth username postmaster@pop3.munted.org.uk, mechanism cram-md5) by outbound-edge-1.mail.thdo.gradwell.net (qpsmtpd/0.83) with ESMTPA; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:23:56 +0100 Received: from lithium.local.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lithium.local.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3318BD4; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 23:23:56 +0100 (BST) Received: by lithium.local.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 99E77F01; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 23:23:56 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] AT - SPARC and JAVA From: Alex Buell To: Matt Turner Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, recruiters@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <1301865500.22166.5.camel@lithium> <1301866685.22166.8.camel@lithium> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: One very high maintenance cat for company Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:23:55 +0100 Message-ID: <1301869435.22166.10.camel@lithium> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Gradwell-MongoId: 4d98f37c.1638e-4b09-1 X-Gradwell-Auth-Method: mailbox X-Gradwell-Auth-Credentials: postmaster@pop3.munted.org.uk X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 247279b014af093b3c100d6774c71360 On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 21:59 +0000, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Alex Buell wro= te: > > 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 a= n > >> 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 ha= ve > >> 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 lis= t > > directly and I am looking at becoming AT and maybe a developer. > > > > Thanks and sorry about the duplicated e-mails! > > > > Alex >=20 > Well, now that I can't claim no knowledge of this... >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 Tactical Nuclear Kittens