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I was wondering about that, how would you volunteer to assist with |
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porting new software to the portage tree? |
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I see that some software packages I would like to install (RT, |
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dotProject) are masked. |
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So I was wondering if anybody needed some assistance maintaining the |
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ports, or if maybe/probably my Gentoo skill set if not up to snuff? |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Richard Broersma Jr [mailto:rabroersma@×××××.com] |
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Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 12:07 PM |
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? |
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> On Monday 18 December 2006 20:17, Grant wrote: |
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> > I |
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> > personally still love Gentoo. |
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> What's the problem then? :) |
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Another question would be, how many of us have made healthy progress in |
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our general knowledge of Linux all thanks to the gentoo user |
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guides/howto(s) and the time spent installing gentoo on our servers? |
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I really benefited from the "cookbook" approach that the user manual |
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takes. It gently opened my eyes to many lower level processes that were |
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always shielded from my eyes on many other distro's that I have used. |
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For this reason Gentoo will always hold a special place in my heart. :o) |
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However, I believe that gentoo's health is completely dependent on the |
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number of talented developers that devote much of their personal time |
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refining and debugging portage and it vast software tree. IMHO, if we |
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would like to see Gentoo maintain healthy growth, more of us happy <less |
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experienced> users should find ways to assisting the core developers by |
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relieving them from the more mundane & redementry tasks. I am sure that |
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the portage tree is already large enough that it is a daunting challenge |
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for the limited number of developers to maintain it and keep it upto |
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date with new software releases. |
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Next time we see a call for assistance in the weekly news letter, we |
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would do well to spend a few hours each week answering that call. |
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Well that's my two cents anyway. |
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Regards, |
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Richard Broersma Jr. |
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