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Hi Amlesh, |
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I suppose you don't mind if I quote your email in a public mailing list. |
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Amlesh Sivanantham <zamlz@××.me> writes: |
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> My name is Amlesh Sivanantham and I am looking to learn how to become |
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> a package maintainer. I found out that there is a gentoo mentoring |
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> system. The page mentions that the best way to try and contribute to |
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> projects listed in this page and get in contact with the poster. I do |
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> not have any experience with writing gentoo ebuilds which is why I was |
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> looking for a mentor. I do however have a lot of experience with |
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> numerical and machine learning libraries. I am currently a masters |
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> student in CS with a focus on Deep Reinforcement Learning for |
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> Robotics. Because of this, I figured that this project would the |
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> perfect fit for me to learn how to contribute to. If you guys would be |
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> able to let me learn under your wing, I would greatly appreciate it. I |
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> look forward to your response. |
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Welcome! I appreciate your enthusiasm. ebuilds are nicely designed |
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shell scripts. Are you familiar with them? |
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At present our BLAS and LAPACK switching framework is under of a stalled |
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migration. |
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At first, it was migrated from nothing to switch-runtime-then-compile |
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alternative-2.eclass in the science overlay. |
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https://github.com/gentoo/sci/blob/master/eclass/alternatives-2.eclass |
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After the discuss in |
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https://github.com/gentoo/sci/issues/805 |
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We figured out that we need to migrate again from alternative-2.eclass |
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into compile-time switching. |
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But our student Doeme abandoned the work half-way, after he has got what |
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he wanted. |
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Integrating optimized BLAS and LAPACK into Gentoo science is important |
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for any serious high performance computing. |
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Are you interested in picking up where Doeme has left out and finish the |
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migration? If so, I will be more than happy to be your mentor and |
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collaborator. |
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To learn how to write ebuild and eclass, refer to the devmanual first: |
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https://devmanual.gentoo.org |
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Yours, |
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