From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA6413826A for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B628141EA; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:32:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BFB21C039 for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1b5qiR-0004e8-AE for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2016 08:32:27 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 09:32:26 +0100 Message-ID: <27118392.jMLH3yKMmu@peak> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.4.6-gentoo; KDE/4.14.16; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <574624FA.1010306@gentoo.org> References: <20160518134555.74bd3476.mgorny@gentoo.org> <3104079.IeJC12BQgj@peak> <574624FA.1010306@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 70ef3ac2-d961-4d7f-8725-b4d511cc9dcc X-Archives-Hash: fb1a55c8ca23f00c121b5a5f1bf8b7d9 On Wednesday 25 May 2016 18:19:38 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be > > willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package > > maintenance. As I've said many times in recent years, my days of coding > > expired about 25 years ago, and then it was in very different systems > > from Linux. > These days it's a lot easier to get practice because you don't have to > deal with CVS. If you clone our git repo as your $PORTDIR, then you can > make your changes and `repoman commit` just like the rest of us. If > you're okay with Github, you can create pull requests there from that > same clone. Aye, there's the rub. Git is a closed book to me at the moment. Having to learn how to use it would at least triple my time to get up to speed. Time, I have plenty of (DV, as they say in religious circles), but my brain doesn't go nearly as well as it did 40 years ago. > You should probably read through the entire devmanual once, but there's > no substitute for practice and asking questions. Sounds like good advice - I'll go and find it now. > There are a lot of easy bugs open on bugs.gentoo.org that you could fix > to get experience. If you fix something in a maintainer-needed package > and post a pull request, I don't see why we couldn't just merge it. > You'll get good feedback that way. In fact, in the worst case, if > gummiboot drops to maintainer-needed, you could fix bugs and make > version bumps that way without the commitment of being the maintainer. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile. -- Rgds Peter