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From: Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: I'm looking for a mentor
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:26:03
Message-Id: BANLkTikDvnU6yjuDgb_cjsCO-SMyHr58MA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] I'm looking for a mentor by Kfir Lavi
1 On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Hi all,
4 > My name is Kfir Lavi, I'm 36 years old, father of a gorgeous child ;)
5 > and a Linux user for about 8 years (I don't count really ;-).
6 > I'm a Linux BSP developer here in Israel.
7 > I started from LFS, and after few weeks I had a Pentium 100Mhz loaded with
8 > X...
9 > I'm a Gentoo user for few years now, and I'm interested in embedded,
10 > catalyst and stuff
11 > related to day to day desktop. At home we are working just on Gentoo, no
12 > other OS installed there.
13 > I'm experienced in cluster environments to embedded environments. I have
14 > worked with Perl, Python and Ruby.
15 > I do prefer Bash for day to day usage. I also do C programming that relate
16 > to Kernel stuff.
17 > In the last few month i did a lot of work using Catalyst, crossdev and
18 > "embedded" in general. I'm using
19 > Portage facilities for my own work internal use. As part of that, I did
20 > some work on public ebuilds.
21 > As work get more complicated, I find myself in need of packages that are
22 > not always
23 > maintained as I need them.
24 > As a start I would like to start maintaining dev-libs/ace, as we are using
25 > it in our systems a lot.
26 > I have emailed Daniel Black, the current maintainer of ACE, about
27 > changing ownership, but
28 > because I'm not a gentoo dev, we can't do it.
29 > I'm currently in a battle of shifting major company to Gentoo from vxworks
30 > and Windriver.
31 > Not easy, and because of that, I have been learning a lot of Gentoo
32 > internals. This really
33 > opened up my view about Portage and it's abilities.
34 > My aim for the future is bringing Catalyst and Portage to an OnDemand
35 > embedded (crossdev) state (Which is a lot to ask, but we'll take it step by
36 > step).
37 >
38 > I would be happy if someone will find the time to mentor me to become a
39 > Gentoo dev.
40 >
41 > More info about me:
42 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/lavikfir
43 > http://gentoo-what-did-you-say.blogspot.com/
44 > I'm a proxy maintainer of app-misc/utimer
45 > http://github.com/kfirlavi/Amalia - Testbed for network testing
46 >
47 > Thanks,
48 > Kfir
49 > lavi.kfir at gmail...
50 > IRC: kipibenkipod
51 >
52
53 Common guys, no one? ...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: I'm looking for a mentor Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>