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Hi, |
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I am long time user of Gentoo and I tinker with the idea of becoming |
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Gentoo developer. |
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I am a software developer by profession, but I am not quite sure if I |
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should involve with Gentoo ebuild development. |
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To be honest, I have not the slightest imagination what becoming a |
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Gentoo developer might mean. Things seem to be abhorringly complicated. |
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As far as I understand, there are developers, proxy developers, then |
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there is something like Project Sunrise which I don't understand. |
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There are apparently several different portage source repositories, |
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basing on different software, and furthermore, there is layman. As far |
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as I remember, portage is stored in cvs, where there is also git, and |
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somewhere subversion seems to linger. |
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And there is lots of documentation that appears to be outdated or |
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strangely unattached to questions concerning organisation and overall |
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structure. |
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Can someone please tell me where to start becoming a developer? Do there |
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exist something like quality guidelines for ebuilds? |
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Why is there such a chaos? |
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Thanks! |