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Takashi Yoshii <yoshii.takashi@×××××××.com> posted |
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4850DC5F.7090800@×××××××.com, excerpted below, on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 |
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17:20:47 +0900: |
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> I've got nothing to BTS so far, because my trial was so successful. So, |
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> maybe I should... |
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> - Test more packages of "sh" to find and report bugs? |
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> - or Test "~sh"s to change them to "sh" ?, or "" to "~sh" ? |
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> - or Test using (or providing?) binary at place like tinderbox? |
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> - Any others? (perhaps, seeking arch maintainer...) |
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Hi. I know little about SuperH personally, but perhaps the following |
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will be helpful general orientation and pointers toward more. |
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AFAIK, the Gentoo sh arch is severely understaffed ATM, and that's an |
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understatement. (I /believe/ most of the work has been done by one |
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person (possibly two), who has other Gentoo responsibilities as well, not |
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to mention the fact that Gentoo devs are all volunteers, so he has a day |
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job too.) That is why as you mentioned it has no current release or |
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stable profile. |
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Thus, if you have reasonable skills and a decent amount of time to |
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dedicate in the medium term, preferably two years or so minimum so the |
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mentoring time investment has some return, what Gentoo on that arch could |
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really use would be a dedicated arch developer. Yes, the personal |
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investment isn't trivial by a long shot, and it's entirely possible you |
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don't have that sort of time available to dedicate, but if you do and |
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want to, read over the dev handbook and seriously consider starting the |
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mentoring process. |
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If you don't have that sort of time or skills available, even a shorter |
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term lower time investment could be very beneficial for the arch. A |
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number of archs have what's called an arch tester position. This is a |
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fairly well defined position where you aren't a Gentoo dev but you work |
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very closely with one or more Gentoo devs, with them doing the final |
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commits based on your testing and results. Many such closely cooperating |
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users have ultimately become devs themselves, while others have remained |
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at the AT position by choice, often due to lack of time and resources to |
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be a full dev, but wanting to give what they can. While becoming a dev |
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has a purposefully longer testing and mentoring process, becoming an AT |
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is much simpler, altho there's usually (archs differ in AT procedures a |
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bit) a general ebuild quiz involved. |
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Then there's folks like me, who spend a lot of time on the various |
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channels/groups/lists/forums/etc (often being more comfortable in some |
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than others, I'm not an IRC person for instance and rarely do forums, so |
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spend most of my time on the lists/groups) trying to help out as best we |
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can, but who haven't taken a formal position of any sort. Of course, |
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that may lead to more later, or not. Personally, I don't consider myself |
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really skilled enough at this point to be a dev (tho I've been asked), |
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tho it's also a matter of not yet having really decided to make the |
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commitment and buckle down and do it. |
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So whatever level you are comfortable and chose to participate at, |
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welcome! Gentoo can put you to work, particularly with your alternative |
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arch experience! =8^) |
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Here's the developer handbook, which can be a very good place to start |
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even if you aren't directly targeting that initially, and should at least |
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answer some questions you no doubt already have, as well as provide you |
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some idea of what's involved if you do wish to head toward devhood. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml |
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If you're looking more at AT, that's to some degree defined by the arch |
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and arch-team in question, and certainly the dynamic on a small arch such |
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as sh will be rather different than on x86 or amd64, but here's the x86 |
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arch-tester's FAQ, to give you an idea, at least. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/x86/arch-testers-faq.xml |
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Other than that, I'd suggest you contact the dev(s) for your arch |
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directly. The one listed for Sh is Mike Sterrett, aka mr_bones_ . You |
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can of course make yourself immediately useful by contributing bugs and |
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patches, etc. Many people find the bug day project very helpful at |
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introducing themselves to the larger community, for instance. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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