Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for help with 2.6 kernel maintenance

[Joris Van den Bogerd]

Hey,

Count me in on this one.  I'm taking a sabbatical from university this year,
so I have lots of time to waste.
Plus the linux kernel has since forever been on my "to-do" list.

Cheers,

Joris (krolden)

On 4/29/07, Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to find one or more people to help out with
> gentoo-sources-2.6 maintenance (our primary supported kernel).
>
> I'm looking for someone with at least:
>   - Interest in kernel stuff, or a desire to become interested
>   - Time to put towards the tasks
>   - Enthusiasm to ask lots of questions rather than let stuff
>     sit around
>   - Basic experience with bugzilla
>   - Basic kernel experience (i.e. you can compile your own)
>
> Having knowledge of kernel internals or experience with kernel hacking
> are not requirements because if you have time, interest and ask a lot of
> questions then these will come anyway. A lot of the work doesn't involve
> technical stuff, plus I was certainly very clueless about all this when
> I originally got involved a couple of years ago.
>
> Being an existing Gentoo developer is not a requirement. Most of the
> work is done on bugzilla and via email. This may be a good opportunity
> to get involved with development and later become a Gentoo developer for
> those that are interested.
>
> It's an enjoyable task, you get to interact with a lot of very
> intelligent people upstream and you end up learning a lot.
>
> I still intend to continue working on gentoo-sources in large capacity,
> but would like to be able to have more time to spend on more aggressive
> regression fixing and upstream kernel development.
>
> Contact me offlist or on IRC if you are interested.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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