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Gerry, |
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On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 05:25 -0400, Gerry Smith wrote: |
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> Hi William, |
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> Just about to hit the road so just a brief reply, |
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> Primarily we're looking for someone who really knows Gentoo and is |
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> strong on security who can take on our sys admin needs, and streamline |
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> how we do things etc. |
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Ok |
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> - we're outgrowing what we've currently got going on. So I appreciate |
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> you forwarding my post. |
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Petteri did that, but I am not sure the response you will get if any |
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from the current dev pool. |
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> If someone's interested in doing this on contract, we'd be interested |
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> too. |
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If I had more EE experience I would talk with you. A local RH |
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employee/buddy has been talking to me about packaging JBoss on Gentoo |
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instead of Glassfish. I really haven't the need or use for either, and |
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made very little progress with JBoss. |
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> Like I said we use JBoss, so if they had experience of this it would |
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> be a plus. |
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We did have some working on JBoss. Contributors, but they might have |
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become devs. Memory is not with me atm. But they are not in the US :( |
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Not sure how far along their work is. From source or not, deps package |
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or not. Pretty sure it's still a ways off of being ready for tree. Much |
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less stabilized or safe to use in production. |
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> I've been meaning to contribute to Gentoo JEE support but I'm just |
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> slammed as it is. |
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> If we hired someone full time who could take this on it could benefit |
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> our company and the community .Alternatively if my time was freed up a |
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> bit perhaps I could. |
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Anything that could be given back to Gentoo would be greatly |
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appreciated. |
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> We're going to need a JEE developer pretty soon too, at least someone |
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> who can understudy what we've got going on so we won't be totally |
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> stuck if a key person is indisposed (and we're all long-time skydivers |
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> here!), so right now if someone's out there who can do both and is |
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> looking for a job it could be a good fit. |
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You might want to post in our forums. I think there might be an |
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employment section or etc there. I don't believe we have a Gentoo job |
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posting board or project. Might be something to discuss or look into. |
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I have a feeling you will end up hiring someone from the community. Not |
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a current Gentoo developer. Which is fine, we have many in our community |
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that know Gentoo better than some devs. Once you hire them, any |
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persuasion to |
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> The best sys admins I know use Gentoo (and turned me onto it some time |
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> ago [my own background is JEE dev, electronic engineer before that]), |
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> I guess because you have to be prepared to go that extra mile, and I |
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> figured this would be a good place to look. |
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Sure, and if we can help find you someone. We would like to, just not |
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sure how many are out there with the skillset you seek. Gentoo skillz |
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yes, JBoss skillz np, both, not to common :) |
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> I hope that clarifies it a bit. Basically at the stage we're at right |
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> now we can juggle things a bit to suit the profile of a good |
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> applicant. |
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Yes, and hopefully you are able to find a qualified applicant, or more |
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than one :) |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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