http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/559 Joining us from the sunny California is Heath Caldwell. Heath will initially be maintaining kerberos related ebuild but will surely soon venture to other areas of the tree. Heath works as a Operating Systems Analyst for California State Polytechnic University and his employer was gracious enough to let him spend some of his work hours working on the Gentoo ebuilds. In all likehood they have a nice Gentoo based kerberos setup running there. Heath is part of a nuclear family and enjoys playing musical instruments, woodworking, playing board games and growing plants. Regards, Petteri Petteri Räty 2008-10-02T19:16:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/553 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Team, It's that time of the month again, time for another BugDay on Saturday 4th September. Join us in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and meet up with fellow users and developers. Read all about it http://bugday.gentoo.org/ There are bugs suitable for all ages, abilities and interests. Just come along and chat to find out what goes on. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjeYSwACgkQTE4/y7nJvaugjACgyvPhFJ9NVlgSFafZSoLrRi86 j9gAoMzAVUoQ0gAI45IK+usEa/UoQYPF =XYsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Roy Bamford 2008-09-27T16:36:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/546 I'm pleased to introduce Ron Gemeinhardt (timebandit) as a new Gentoo developer. Ron will be a moderator with the forums team. Ron is an electrical engineer in theory and a software architect in practice. Having been in the IT business for more than 25 years he has extensive knowledge of $(for ACRONYM in "${LinkedIn}"; do echo -n " ${ACRONYM},"; done). This also automatically gives him access to the Old Boys club in Gentoo. Ron, should you accept the invitation you will receive a complimentary Viagra 10-pack. Don't pass this up, it changed my life. Let's face it though, Ron wasn't recruited because of what he knows or can do, but simply for his fine taste. He has a penchant for Formula 1. The rest is almost insignificant: photography, kiteflying and reading. And although he has lived in New Jersey all his life he has traveled a lot in the USA, Europe and the Caribbean. Ron's ultimate goal in life is to someday learn why everyone on IRC points at amne and laughs. Please everybody, give a warm welcome to t Denis Dupeyron 2008-09-22T12:52:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/543 Joining us from Saint Lous, Missouri is Nathan "kalos" Zachary. Nathan is joining us to bash the forum members with a large trout. In the future he might get involved with the doc project. Nathan has been working with computers for the better part of his life and is currently working in the web hosting business. On his free time he is an avid photographer and also is still studying for various University degrees. Time to bash, Petteri Petteri Räty 2008-09-20T23:26:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/535 It's my pleasure to introduce Matthew Summers (quantumsummers) as a new developer in Gentoo. Matthew will be our new Trustees secretary. Matthew joins us from Springfield, MO, USA, where he is the co-founder and CEO of Liquidus Tech, LLC. We have been very lucky to get help from him and some of his interns for a few months. The internship program he is hosting is helping out with some of our documentation as well as refactoring Beacon to the Django framework. Beacon, for those who don't remember, was the SoC project of Anant Narayanan for a web-based WYSIWYG GuideXML editor. For SoC 2008 Anant has been mentoring Nandeep Mali whose project is to improve Beacon, so this project is far from dead. Matthew is a happily married man who likes to bike, hike, swim, and climb a bit. He also enjoys chess and kenpo karate. He comes from a physics background but has an extensive experience of lots of computer languages and technologies. His business experience is what we are going to benefit from at the beginning, but Denis Dupeyron 2008-09-14T15:33:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/534 Looks like Jorge's announcement was slightly messed up, I apologize for that. He has already been announced everywhere except on this list, which is why this email won't appear on the gentoo-dev-announce list. It's my pleasure to announce that Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto is now finally an ebuild developer. Jorge has previously been a forum moderator, sparc AT and then AT lead, so he's hardly new to Gentoo. He is already very busy with the KDE team working to bring us KDE 4.1. Jorge also recently joined the undertakers subproject and was given the devrel complimentary flyswatter. I will keep his presentation very short as most of you already know him. Let's just say that he comes from a place that is as unusual as it is beautiful: the Azorean Islands. Instead I'd rather tell the story of how Jorge is a very good example of how recruiters work nowadays. He was a candidate for recruitment a few months ago, had his review, but his technical skills lacked a bit. It was suggested to him that he should get more ex Denis Dupeyron 2008-09-12T15:29:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/531 It's my usual pleasure to announce to you our latest addition to the hardened team. Everyone please welcome Gordon "gengor" Malm who hails us from Roseville, CA. Unlike many of Gordon does not consider himself a programmer but he says he is studying hard to be able to call himself one. Gordon works for a corporate security contractor. As for his hobbies I will let his own words speak: "I enjoy spending time with my love, family and friends; Reading/studying in various non-fiction topics - computer-related, history, science, health, politics, etc. Computer stuff - numerous areas of interest. Outdoorsy stuff - camping, hiking, fishing, wilderness survival, amature armorering (legally) and shooting (not at living creatures though). Miscellaneous other interests/hobbies." Pull out your best guns to break his hardened shell. Regards, Petteri Petteri Räty 2008-09-07T23:46:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/529 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Team, It's that time of the month again, time for another BugDay on Saturday 5th September. Join us in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and meet up with fellow users and developers. Read all about it http://bugday.gentoo.org/ There are bugs suitable for all ages, abilities and interests. Just come along and chat to find out what goes on. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAki5WCEACgkQTE4/y7nJvatPxACZAQgrTsyAXgCY7e0KOS8Jf9mF nEIAoO/iTfg6XZg2WT25fQUoB2w+hsIa =tywa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Roy Bamford 2008-08-30T14:24:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/518 Posting to project as I think this stuff needs input from users as well as devs. (Many users have a lot of experience with embedded dev and ABI quirks.) Flameeyes posted here about ABI deps: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/articles/2008/08/18/same-abi-and-any-abi-dependencies ..which reminded me a lot of: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201499 Not really fussed about how it's resolved, so long as we get some sort of correct link dependency information (which compile-against is not.) OFC that probably means we'll never get correct LDEPENDs but such is life ;) What do others reckon about resolving ABI stuff, especially for cross-dev and multi-lib/testing? Steve Long 2008-08-19T20:35:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/515 Like a fine wine, SCALE continues to improve with age. The 7th Annual So Cal Linux Expo will be February 20-22, 2009. For 2009, the Expo will return to the Westin LAX Hotel, site of the 6th Expo. Because interest in Open Source Software is steadily growing, attendance at SCALE continues to also grow. The depth and breadth of its audience is expanding, so the Expo will add additional speaker tracks to expand the educational opportunities for guests of all experience levels. The Call for Papers for the 7th Annual Expo opened August 4th 2008. The CFP solicits proposals from those who wish to speak at SCALE in February. In addition to three general tracks, a Developer's track and a Beginner's track have been added. So there are many more opportunities to speak at SCALE, and on a vastly wider breadth of topics than in the past. Pertinent dates for the CFP are: 4 August, 2008: CFP Opens 30 Nov, 2008: Deadline for abstracts/proposals submissions 20 Dec, 2008: Last date for notification of acceptance 20 Feb, 2009 Gareth J. Greenaway 2008-08-12T05:16:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/510 (Yes, this is another of my now unfortunately famous late new-dev announcements. I finished setting up Thomas a couple hours before having to board a plane and have been hopping from one place to the other with unreliable internet since then. I'm going to snorkel like this for a few more weeks until I finally dive and resurface about 5400 nautic miles away. Please bear with me) It's my pleasure to introduce Thomas Anderson (gentoofan23) as an almost new Gentoo developer. As you may know, Thomas has already been messing up with our tree for a few weeks now. His turf is mostly amd64, sunrise and science. He his rather proficient in C, C++ and bash. You probably all know that I like thinking of my recruits as my kids. But Thomas is definitely young enough to be my son. And since he is such a nice kid I'm going to ask you guys to behave in his presence. By the way there must be something in his genes because one of his brothers is an Ubuntu developer. Thomas enjoys cooking as well as playing the bass and the Denis Dupeyron 2008-08-07T21:43:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/507 Joining us from the jungles of Venezuela we have Jesus "neurogeek" Rivero. He has a degree in Behavioral Psychology so he will be joining the project to make sure people stay angry and flame as much as possible. If he has any leftover time he will be maintaining python related packages. Jesus is interested in Artificial Intelligence, Distributed and Parallel Computing. I guess his wife didn't marry him only because of good looks. Now let's try to prove to him that languages like ruby are much better than python. Regards, Petteri -- Gentoo/Recruiters project lead Petteri Räty 2008-07-29T19:21:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/506 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Team, It's that time of the month again, time for another BugDay on Saturday 2nd Aungust. Join us in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and meet up with fellow users and developers. Read all about it http://bugday.gentoo.org/ There are bugs suitable for all ages, abilities and interests. Just come along and chat to find out what goes on. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiLDPYACgkQTE4/y7nJvasTowCgpv8t9HIlOMy2chUnAOzcGwHK JMEAoJGhGdrWp0dRB15VquXbCNkt6MIO =0PSj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Roy Bamford 2008-07-26T11:39:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/499 Joining as from Kanpur, India is Arun "Ford_Prefect" Raghavan. Arun is currently a developer for the Beagle desktop search project for which he was a student in the 2007 SOC and he has submitted small patches to various other projects. On the Gentoo side Arun will be joining us to help with maintaining GNOME so feel free to flame him on his bad choice of a WM. When not working with computers Arun gave me the usual hobbies for nerds like sci-fi and fantasy literature so remember to buy him a lot of beer if you ever see him in a conference. Tervetuloa, Petteri Petteri Räty 2008-07-17T20:44:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/493 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Team, It's that time of the month again, time for another BugDay on Saturday 5th July. Join us in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and meet up with fellow users and developers. Read all about it http://bugday.gentoo.org/ There are bugs suitable for all ages, abilities and interests. Just come along and chat to find out what goes on. Your distro needs you. - -- Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhlam8ACgkQTE4/y7nJvau2GwCg5aanr//+hAK6FvvHwOXvnLLA q08Ani9aNfICpGnD3J8vZ3dcFp38BBQ3 =mV0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Roy Bamford 2008-06-27T22:32:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/484 Hi All, I've been thinking about the perceived lack of progress in Gentoo a bit. And somehow it doesn't fit - there are so many nice things. What I did notice though is a lack of communication. Sometimes you mention "Hey, would be great if we had X" on IRC and three people point you at different implementations of the thing you've been searching for the last three months. Here's my challenge to you: Point out and describe the cool things that other people might not now. Small helper apps, overlays with crazy stuff, ricer patches and whatever else you can think of. I can think of a few well known ones: eix, the fast search tool for portage. Really shiny. OpenRC - Awesome init system. It's deviously fast and makes Fedora look like a relict of the 70s Layman - started as a small helper script, now gives access to around 3000 ebuilds (or even more, I haven't counted them in a while) Portage - with 2.2 on the horizon there are some neat features (like sets and obsoleting revdep-rebuild) I'd really Patrick Lauer 2008-06-16T21:50:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/481 It's my pleasure to announce Friedrich Oslage (bluebird) is a new Gentoo developer. He will join the SPARC team for which he has been an Arch Tester for some time already. Friedrich is originally from Osnabrück, Germany, but he has been living in Munich for 3 years now. He creates web applications using Ruby on Rails for a living, but he also has experience administrating Oracle databases. He owns 6 computers, 3 of which are UltraSPARCs. When not working or playing with his SPARC toys, Friedrich likes playing poker with his friends, counting down the number of days left to Oktoberfest, and watching Stargate. He also loves pets but doesn't have any as he is afraid he would forget to feed them. Here's a trick then : whenever you have a hangover, feed your pets. Because you forgot to feed them the previous night. How difficult is this ? Please everybody, give a warm welcome to bluebird. Denis. Denis Dupeyron 2008-06-11T16:37:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/473 I've removed myself from the fonts team. I just don't have time for Gentoo anymore. Thanks. Ryan Hill 2008-06-06T23:42:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/472 Hi all, Here's a good story about how Debian's governance model has evolved over time and what kinds of qualities are important to people involved in things like our council: http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governance_and_organization A few interesting snippets: The authors find that while technical proficiency is an important criteria for leadership in such a group, it is not sufficient. Despite espoused preferences for ‘hands-off leaders,’ skill in building the organization becomes increasingly important over time. ... Recent scholarship on open source communities suggests that any governance system introduced must be meritocratic in order to attract high quality contributions from voluntary members. ... Second, the authors show that even in a community of open source programmers that espouses the value of technical contributions above all else, members’ conceptions of leadership change over time to increasingly value orga Donnie Berkholz 2008-06-06T20:42:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/455 Matt "mjf" Fleming is joining our Security team and hails from Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK. He does does a lot of low-level programing but also gets his hands dirty with languages like Java. He is already a developer of NetBSD so maybe he will eventually join to maintain the Gentoo/NetBSD port. That would probably mean a huge boost to the user base. Matt is an avid read and collector of vinyl records of any genre. I guess they still have their uses besides being Frisbees. Fire away, Petteri Petteri Räty 2008-06-02T20:40:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/453 It's my pleasure to introduce Peter Alfredsen (loki_val) as a new Gentoo developer. Peter has been suffering from acute uncontrolled patching and ebuild writing for some time. We made sure there was no treatment for this and then invited him to join us so that he can close himself the myriad bugs he has opened. He will be primarily working with the sound, fonts and gcc porting teams. Peter lives in Marstal on the beautiful island of Ærø, Denmark. He studied economics at the University of Southern Denmark, but decided at some point that earning money was more important. He claims his skills are limited to fixing C code, and also C++ when threatened with a pitchfork. He will refuse to do FORTRAN for aesthetic reasons (which means you know FORTRAN, sinner). Please give a warm welcome to loki_val. I believe he hasn't been kicked on irc yet. So next time you see him take a good aim, recoil and give him your best kick. Then tell him Calchan says hi. Denis. 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