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Hello, |
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Genkernel's situation (reduced to the three currently most active |
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players) looks like this to me: |
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- aidecoe |
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- is focussed on the transition to Dracut and related things |
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- is fixing bugs in present genkernel from time to time |
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- xake |
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- is fixing bugs in the current genkernel releases |
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- likes his patches to be reviewed |
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- cannot do releases as he has no developer account, yet |
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- sping (me) |
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- writes and applies patches from time to time. |
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(Commitment varies, at a low right now.) |
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- has never used half of the many technologies involved himself |
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(iSCSI, dmraid, netboot, ...) |
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- is the bottleneck on some reviews and releases |
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There are various bugs around, some just need attention, some could use |
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insider knowledge that we lack. Furthermore the kernel configs shipped |
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by Genkernel are mainly from a time before the three of us took over and |
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need fixes, a concept and documentation too. There is no test suite |
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(virtual machines?) that I knew of catching regressions (of which we had |
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few only, in that light). |
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Nevertheless genkernel has fun aspects: it's in much better shape than |
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3.4.10.907 was, including documentation. It's a core Gentoo tool used |
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by quite a few people so the work you do on Genkernel matters. |
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With that in mind: |
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Are you interested in joining Genkernel? |
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Thanks, |
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Sebastian |
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