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On Monday 22 August 2005 00:15, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> >Since we have time constraints ourselves, we understand potential |
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> >recruits may only have a few hours during one day of the week to |
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> >do Gentoo development, and that is Ok. However, if you don't |
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> >think you will be able to dedicate at least an hour or two a |
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> >week on average, I am not sure it would be profitable to invest |
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> >time and efforts in the mentoring process. |
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> I probably spend at least that much time *testing* open source software |
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> a week. Let's say half of Saturday for a start. But I test a variety of |
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> stuff, not just science packages. How big of a leap is it from being a |
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> hard-core beta tester like myself to actually maintaining a package? |
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As Olivier said at least a few hours a week to dedicate to Gentoo would be |
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enough, and it sounds as if you already do that. I myself do work in the |
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scientific herd (mentored by Olivier) which was the herd I originally joined |
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with, the AMD64 porting team, the KDE herd and the net-proxy herd. These are |
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just the packages I tend to use a lot, or the areas I work in. Some I just |
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maintain because I am a nice guy and find it interesting using new |
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packages :) |
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The leap isn't too great from building betas, being involved upstream and |
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keeping up with releases/bug hunting to becoming a developer. You need a good |
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background in bash scripting, ebuild writing and the tools used to author |
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ebuilds. You also need to prove a certain level of knowledge before you |
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become a full developer - please take a look at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml and |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ for further details :) |
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I remember reading some of your bugs, and working through some R stuff with |
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you previously. You don't have to limit yourself to just scientific |
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applications if you become a developer. |
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One thing I hope to improve is communication with users and potential |
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developers for the scientific herd. It would be nice to see a little more |
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activity on the mailing lists and IRC! Freenode, #gentoo-science - there |
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aren't many of us on there but we do idle on that channel amongst others. |
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Hope that answers a few of your questions - and if I got anything wrong I am |
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sure some of the other developers will correct me ;) |
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Sincerely, |
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Marcus |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Scientific Applications | AMD64 | KDE | net-proxy |
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