Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Rafael Goncalves Martins <rafaelmartins@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:25:20
Message-Id: CAHgY3qduck8A8ck6wcvYXbJq2-aBRN12zCWQQ-XuEncLYy_pJg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage team, Zac's development break and stepping down as lead by Brian Dolbec
1 On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 04:27 -0200, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi Brian,
5 >>
6 >> I'm somewhat familiar with portage code, and want to help a bit too.
7 >> My main target would be to integrate distpatch (distfile delta
8 >> support, a.k.a. my work on gsoc 2011) with portage. I sent the patch
9 >> to the list years ago, but it never got any reviews, etc. I'm going to
10 >> rewrite it and add some tests, etc.
11 >>
12 >> Can I join the team? :)
13 >>
14 >> Thanks!
15 >>
16 >
17 > Sure. With more people, it will be less demanding on each of us.
18 >
19 > I know myself I've only spent maybe half an hour in the code so far, and
20 > still haven't finished it. The rest of the time I've spent in getting
21 > established as lead. Also with more people being familiar with the
22 > code, team decisions will help keep bad ideas from creeping in, etc..
23 >
24 > Can you give us the link to any code you have (with g.o.g.o down) and a
25 > brief summary of how it works please. The we can start to have a look
26 > at it. Possibly come up with some better (if possible) ideas on
27 > integrating it.
28 >
29 > P.S. add yourself to the project wiki page as a member.
30
31 I'm currently rewriting the patch. It does not seems to work with
32 current master. Will send to the list asap.
33
34 General description of the feature is here:
35 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/distpatch/
36
37 I'll migrate this page to the wiki soon.
38
39 BR,
40
41 Rafael Goncalves Martins
42 Gentoo Linux developer
43 http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/