Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I'm looking for a mentor

[Kfir Lavi]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:24:54PM +0300, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > My name is Kfir Lavi, I'm 36 years old, father of a gorgeous child ;)
> > > and a Linux user for about 8 years (I don't count really ;-).
> > > I'm a Linux BSP developer here in Israel.
> > > I started from LFS, and after few weeks I had a Pentium 100Mhz loaded
> with
> > > X...
> > > I'm a Gentoo user for few years now, and I'm interested in embedded,
> > > catalyst and stuff
> > > related to day to day desktop. At home we are working just on Gentoo,
> no
> > > other OS installed there.
> > > I'm experienced in cluster environments to embedded environments. I
> have
> > > worked with Perl, Python and Ruby.
> > > I do prefer Bash for day to day usage. I also do C programming that
> relate
> > > to Kernel stuff.
> > > In the last few month i did a lot of work using Catalyst, crossdev and
> > > "embedded" in general. I'm using
> > > Portage facilities for my own work internal use. As part of that, I did
> > > some work on public ebuilds.
> > > As work get more complicated, I find myself in need of packages that
> are
> > > not always
> > > maintained as I need them.
> > > As a start I would like to start maintaining dev-libs/ace, as we are
> using
> > > it in our systems a lot.
> > > I have emailed  Daniel Black, the current maintainer of ACE,  about
> > > changing ownership, but
> > > because I'm not a gentoo dev, we can't do it.
> > > I'm currently in a battle of shifting major company to Gentoo from
> vxworks
> > > and Windriver.
> > > Not easy, and because of that, I have been learning a lot of Gentoo
> > > internals. This really
> > > opened up my view about Portage and it's abilities.
> > > My aim for the future is bringing Catalyst and Portage to an OnDemand
> > > embedded (crossdev) state (Which is a lot to ask, but we'll take it
> step by
> > > step).
> > >
> > > I would be happy if someone will find the time to mentor me to become a
> > > Gentoo dev.
> > >
> > > More info about me:
> > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/lavikfir
> > > http://gentoo-what-did-you-say.blogspot.com/
> > > I'm a proxy maintainer of app-misc/utimer
> > > http://github.com/kfirlavi/Amalia - Testbed for network testing
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kfir
> > > lavi.kfir at gmail...
> > > IRC: kipibenkipod
> > >
> >
> > Common guys, no one? ...
>
> Kfir,
>
> I can help you with that. Contact me off-list
>
> Regards,
> --
> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
>

Hi,
Thanks to Markos, we have started the mentoring process.

Regards,
Kfir