Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-09-10

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El jue, 19-09-2013 a las 08:21 -0500, Daniel Campbell escribió:
> On 09/19/2013 01:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El mié, 18-09-2013 a las 23:33 -0500, Daniel Campbell escribió:
> > [...]
> >> Additionally, I couldn't really come up with a solid goal to work on; an
> >> answer to "why do you want to become a developer?" My computing
> >> interests lie in problems that are already solved for the most part (IOW
> >> I don't know how to find an unsolved problem). My favorite software
> >> already has capable maintainers on Gentoo, as well. So if I found myself
> >> as a developer, I don't know what I would work on. I'm interested in
> >> writing better guides for things, making corrections, updating out-dated
> >> stuff, and wouldn't mind adding new packages to portage, but that
> >> strikes me as something general that all developers pretty much do already.
> > 
> > Maybe you could help in things like maintainer-needed alias -> that
> > requires to fix some random stuff from time to time, make bumps... Apart
> > of that, on what areas/teams are you interested?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Helping out on packages that don't get much attention could be
> gratifying. I don't think I'd mind that, depending on how difficult the
> packages are to maintain. :p

It depends on each package, when I had time to take care of
maintainer-needed bugs (not much currently :S), I simply reviewed the
opened bugs against them and tried to fix some ;)

[...]
> Gaming is fairly important to me, too... I could help add or maintain
> games that'll run on Gentoo. It's really a blank slate to me.
> 

Maybe could be an option, others are the things you use frequently :)