Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 02-06-2016 a las 10:42 -0500, james escribió:
> On 06/01/2016 06:20 PM, Justin Bronder wrote:
>  > Due to a lack of time and the fact I don't use any of these
> packages 
>  > anymore, they are all up for grabs.
>  >
>  >      - media-gfx/openmesh [no project]
>  >      - sys-cluster/ganglia [cluster]
>  >      - sys-cluster/ganglia-web [cluster]
>  >      - sys-cluster/torque [cluster]
>  >      - sys-cluster/munge [cluster] dependency of sys-
> cluster/torque
>  >      - sys-cluster/mpe2 [cluster]
>  >
>  > Also, if there's anyone out there using the science overlay and
> empi 
>  > who's feeling motivated, that work still needs a champion to get
> it
>  > into the main tree.  If not, I'll probably drop it in a few months
>  > and open openmpi and mpich2 to project maintenance as well.  I
>  > haven't been involved in HPC for over a decade now, it's time to
>  > pass the torch.
>
>
> Hello Justin,
>
> I've been working on cluster ebuilds for a while (Apache Mesos,
> spark, 
> etc). I'm willing to proxy maintain these except torque. Assuming
> there 
> are no users of torque on gentoo (bgo seems inactive...it's dead;
> how 
> would I know?).
>
> My focus is building gentoo centric HPC clusters that do not require 
> systemd as a component, with deployment emphasis on bare-metal and 
> minimized gentoo systems where only the codes absolutely necessary
> to 
> support the necessary frameworks are dynamically installed. Many of
> the 
> 'retro' tools in this cluster space, are quite useful for my work.
>
> The guidexml page for empi is old, so where do I read up on it's 
> projected usage (just not familiar with that empi project/package).
>
> James
>

Then, I would suggest you to contact proxy-maint project (I have CCed
them to this for letting them to know)

Thanks for volunteering!