Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

[Peter Humphrey]

On Wednesday 25 May 2016 18:19:38 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be
> > willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package
> > maintenance. As I've said many times in recent years, my days of coding
> > expired about 25 years ago, and then it was in very different systems
> > from Linux.
> These days it's a lot easier to get practice because you don't have to
> deal with CVS. If you clone our git repo as your $PORTDIR, then you can
> make your changes and `repoman commit` just like the rest of us. If
> you're okay with Github, you can create pull requests there from that
> same clone.

Aye, there's the rub. Git is a closed book to me at the moment. Having to 
learn how to use it would at least triple my time to get up to speed. Time, 
I have plenty of (DV, as they say in religious circles), but my brain 
doesn't go nearly as well as it did 40 years ago.

> You should probably read through the entire devmanual once, but there's
> no substitute for practice and asking questions.

Sounds like good advice - I'll go and find it now.

> There are a lot of easy bugs open on bugs.gentoo.org that you could fix
> to get experience. If you fix something in a maintainer-needed package
> and post a pull request, I don't see why we couldn't just merge it.
> You'll get good feedback that way. In fact, in the worst case, if
> gummiboot drops to maintainer-needed, you could fix bugs and make
> version bumps that way without the commitment of being the maintainer.

Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile.

-- 
Rgds
Peter