El dom, 12-04-2015 a las 14:17 +0200, Yanestra escribió: > Hi, > > I am long time user of Gentoo and I tinker with the idea of becoming > Gentoo developer. > > I am a software developer by profession, but I am not quite sure if I > should involve with Gentoo ebuild development. > > To be honest, I have not the slightest imagination what becoming a > Gentoo developer might mean. Things seem to be abhorringly > complicated. > > As far as I understand, there are developers, proxy developers, then > there is something like Project Sunrise which I don't understand. > > There are apparently several different portage source repositories, > basing on different software, and furthermore, there is layman. As far > as I remember, portage is stored in cvs, where there is also git, and > somewhere subversion seems to linger. > > And there is lots of documentation that appears to be outdated or > strangely unattached to questions concerning organisation and overall > structure. > > Can someone please tell me where to start becoming a developer? Do > there exist something like quality guidelines for ebuilds? > > Why is there such a chaos? > > Thanks! >
Hi! I don't see such chaos :/ Did you take a look to https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/become-developer/ ? Regarding the documentation needed to fulfill the quizzes, the quizzes already contain "tips" to help people to find the documentation, also, most of the useful information is at: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ Then, starting to read Devmanual would be a good start :) Best regards
