Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] New Developer: Michael Orlitzky (mjo)

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 12/05/2013 10:04 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 09:04 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>>
>> Welcome Michael!  What herds will you be working with?
>>
>
> Thanks. I haven't joined any yet, but there are a few I'm interested in.
> And some of those I have the ability to help out.
>
> Interest:
>
>    * emacs
>    * hardened (hi)
>    * haskell
>    * net-mail
>    * php
>    * sci(-mathematics)
>    * sysadmin
>    * webapps
>
> Interest and ability:
>
>    * emacs
>    * haskell
>    * net-mail
>    * php
>    * sysadmin
>
> The first big thing on my todo list (once the semester is over) is bug
> #410451 [1]. After that, I'll probably sign up for more responsibility.
>
> I would really like to chat with the webapps team some time; we use a
> number of off-the-shelf web applications, but not in a way that
> webapp-config supports. So I have my own ebuilds for e.g.
> www-dependencies/piwik, which lists the deps for Piwik[2] but doesn't
> install anything.

My student (gentoo dev twitch153) and I are maintaining webapp-config. 
We're both upstream and the ebuild maintainer.

>
> I don't expect webapp-config to support every crazy configuration that I
> can think up, but it would be super convenient if could use the ebuilds
> in the tree for dependency management. Right now I'd have to
> INSTALL_MASK my entire web root and that would cause issues with the few
> web applications we do install "normally" (e.g. Mailman).
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410451
> [2] http://piwik.org/
>


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D'Youville College
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