[gentoo-dev] New developer: Michael Schön beck (thoand)
Hi list, Michael has just joined us to help with the Video Disc Record ebuilds. He lives in a small town near Bielefeld in Germany, and is twenty-one years old. He has a girlfriend. In his spare time he takes an interest in politics, and has also provided translations for a few Firefox extensions. He's familiar with Bash, Java and Elan, as far as computing goes. Please welcome Michael on board. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpoL4ene3Y7x.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Alexandre Buisse (Nattfodd)
Hi list, Nattfodd's joining to help with the text-markup herd. His real name is Alexandre Buisse and he lives in Lyons, France, where he is studying for computer science in the Ècole Normale Superieure de Lyon. He's aiming to achieve either a Ph.D. in logic, although he's also considering model theory, lambda calculus or "Curry-Howard things. He is experienced in C and OCaml, which he considers his main languages. He's also competent with Perl, Python and Common Lisp. In addition, he's looking to learn Haskell and Coq (an Ocaml derivative designed for creating formal proofs of mathematical theorems). Alexandre has a patch in Hurd/L4, he is a co-maintainer and creator of funk, a kernel in Ocaml (http://www.gna.org/projects/funk) and he participated in the Google Summer of Code in writing a generational garbage collector, GMC, for the Perl 6 VM (http://www.parrotcode.org). He is also part of the Bed team (http://www.gna.org/projects/bed), aiming to create a vim-like editor in Ocaml. There, he is responsible for the GTK and Cairo side of things. And just to top it all off, he's writing a cairo-based window manager, yauwm. So, please welcome Alexandre to the team. Thanks, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpBncr36wqwd.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Gunnar Wrobel (wrobel)
Hi list, Gunnar Wrobel is joining to help with the webapps herd, in particular the webapp-config utility. Gunnar lives in Hamburg, Germany. He studied biochemistry, and went on to study biotechnology to become a bioinformatician. He says that he "ended up skipping the 'bio'-part. I really didn't like science for a variety of reasons, so I switched to being a freelancer." Gunnar also enjoys drama and watching films. Gunnar is experienced in the Ps: Perl, PHP and Python. Moving on in the alphabet, he's handy with R. In addition he knows Java and shell. In the past he's contributed to SiteBar (www.sitebar.org), autoprime (www.autoprime.de) and BioConductor (www.bioconductor.org). So, please say hi on IRC and welcome Gunnar on board. Thanks, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpUmXK2pdM0G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] developer keyring?
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:10:46 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So right now you'd have to go through the website (fetch the keys from > the roll-call page ... if you remember where that is) and import them > one by one (time-consuming). > > Any automation of that process would be really appreciated :-) > (Also it would make any mandatory ebuild signing much easier to handle > from a user p.o.v. ...) Shouldn't really be a problem. Grep the key ids from roll-call.xml (any string beginning with "0x") and gpg --recv-keys them. As a side-affect, you should easily be able to find any developers who haven't uploaded their keys to a sensible keyserver, i.e. subkeys.pgp.net. HTH, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] developer keyring?
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 02:09:39 + Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a side-affect, ... That is of course a side-effect. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:31:42 + Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:31:30 + Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | We haven't done anything interesting or innovative over > | the last...year? > > Codswallop. We've done lots of large, innovative changes. You've just > not been paying enough attention to have seen them, and the people > doing the changes haven't been going around screaming about it from > the rooftops. > > If you'd like to see more interesting or innovative changes, start by > looking into how we can make it easier for developers to advertise > what they've been doing. planet.g.o? -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:34:22 -0500 Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Harring wrote: [Sun Jan 08 2006, 09:16:36PM EST] > > Regardless, (imo) it's already been laid out why guideXML'ifying > > everything doesn't totally work. Three reasons... > > > > A) bit of work required just to jot down a quick list of "this is > > broke, fix it" that's going to be thrown out 2 weeks down the line. > > I noticed Ciaran has been using RST for GLEP 42. I wonder if it would > be a good alternative to guideXML in general. > > http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html > > I realize this doesn't address the *rest* of what you said, though... I agree. These little 'howtos' are potentially very short, and guideXML would be overkill. RST is absolutely perfect for this kind of thing: quick and easy to write, powerful, and legible in raw form. It's also easily converted to any number of other formats. A new CVS repository containing these little howtos that is accessible with viewcvs would be perfect, if you ask me. There would be proper version control on the files and they would be read/write for developers and read-only for users (otherwise the potential of vandalism etc. is too high). This is, in my opinion, how things should be for these simple developer guides. I'd also propose that these things are listed in a flat directory hierarchy, more or less. I'd rather the names of the files were prefixed with the project/herd name and then dumped in the same directory.It would encourage 'reading around' a bit (you know, like when you look up a word in a dictionary and end up learning another few words by accident). This can only be a good thing (I'll admit that, say, a documentation developer stumbling across the Gentoo/MIPS stabilisation criteria is not in reality that useful useful, but in the majority of cases this rule holds true). The whole wiki-for-everything idea really annoys me. It forces a web browser on me, and this is particularly naff when it comes to editing. It's also really bland and boring, and completely unoriginal. They're also hard to navigate. If I was going to write one of these guides I'd rather put a .txt on my devspace than bother with the devwiki. I still haven't fixed the other two points Brian mentioned, but I don't really think they're all that serious. If a user sees an omission, he can drop a mail to the guy who wrote the guide. There's really no reason to file bugs for anything like this. Allowing universal r/w is asking for vandalism. As for the third point -- concurrency -- this is exactly what any VCS is supposed to fix. We live with it with the tree's CVS, I'm sure we can live with it for this. I guess it's also important to distinguish what constitutes a little development 'howto' for some common task, rather than a full-on GDP guide. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:47:57 + Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:34:22 -0500 > Aron Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Harring wrote:[Sun Jan 08 2006, 09:16:36PM EST] > > > Regardless, (imo) it's already been laid out why guideXML'ifying > > > everything doesn't totally work. Three reasons... > > > > > > A) bit of work required just to jot down a quick list of "this is > > > broke, fix it" that's going to be thrown out 2 weeks down the > > > line. > > > > I noticed Ciaran has been using RST for GLEP 42. I wonder if it > > would be a good alternative to guideXML in general. > > > > http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html > > > > I realize this doesn't address the *rest* of what you said, > > though... > > I agree. > > These little 'howtos' are potentially very short, and guideXML would > be overkill. RST is absolutely perfect for this kind of thing: quick > and easy to write, powerful, and legible in raw form. It's also easily > converted to any number of other formats. > > A new CVS repository containing these little howtos that is accessible > with viewcvs would be perfect, if you ask me. > > (big snip) ... And then Flameeyes showed me MoinMoin. It understands RST and can also do XMLRPC. Best of all worlds. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects and simple guides
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:11:42 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And IIRC ciaranm said it took quite a while to render the devmanual > from RST to HTML, would be difficult to sync hourly then. The devmanual has an an enormous number of links, citations and cross references. I'd imagine that's what really takes time to generate. For things like this, it would be very fast. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Some LaTeX news
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 14:24:22 +0100 Alexandre Buisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (snip) > > And, last but not least, a LaTeX doc began. It's still a very early > draft but any (constructive) criticism and help is most welcome. The > discussion happens in bug #118405 and the last draft can be found on > my devpage (http://dev.gentoo.org/~nattfodd). Great work! If you need a proof-reader/editor or anything at all, let me know. I'd be really pleased to help with it :) Regards, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developers: Martin Ehmsen (ehmsen) and Michal Kurgan (moloh)
Hi list, Two new developers to tell you about. First up is Martin Ehmsen, who is going to be helping out with the text-markup herd, i.e. tex ;). He's already prepared a bit about him: "I'm a 25 year old Dane living in Odense on Fyn,the central island of Denmark. I'm studying computer science at the University of Southern Denmark and currently I'm writing a master thesis about on-line algorithms which is a special kind of approximation algorithms. Besides the studying, I'm living with my girlfriend and trying to fix our new apartment for our coming baby (yeah... I'm going to be a father in June... too late to bail out now :) When I have some spare time I'm very much into watching movies and my DVD collection is growing by the week. I'm mostly into Asian and older movies (actually everything that contains a bit of meaning... not the latest Fast and the Furious X and similar). I also play football (not the American kind). I have contributed patches to several projects including openbox, psi, rsync, nano and bbkeys. I have also coded several small i'm-probably-the-only-user kind of apps... like a small daemon for a Remote Wonder ATI remote control, so that I can control my music without having to have X running. I have been programming for a lot of years (can't remember when I started). I teach (or have taught) C, Java, Prolog and Haskell at my university, besides that I use (or have used) LISP, Bash (zsh or whatever),... and so on :)" The other new developer, Michal Kurgan, is going to be translating the GWN into Polish. He writes: "I am 24 years old, and i was born in one of major cities in Poland, Krakow. I finished my MSc thesis, this year, at University of Science and Technology in Poland, currently i start my PhD program at University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. My best time spending hobbies would be working with computer (still, after about 1.5 year "Gentoo playing" is great pleasure), literature (mostly fantasy or sf), hard & heavy music and for a sport i prefer basketball." Michal knows C, C++, PHP, sh, ProLog, MySQL and VHDL. Please help me welcome Martin and Michal to the rabble. :) Regards, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 encoding and file format of manuals
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 21:08:54 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 June 2006 20:19, Jan Kundrát wrote: > > Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: > > > Summing up: > > > * UTF-8 manuals: good or bad? > > > > The Only Way To Go (tm), IMHO. Let's let the legacy encodings die > > in piece. > > Would it be possible to do automatic detection and unicode conversion > in the portage install stage? I think that would probably be the best > option. At a later stage a simple detection and warning might be > sufficient. > I'd imagine that glep31check could be easily adapted to do this. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Future developer
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 20:00:46 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 01 July 2006 00:31, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > > Paul, > > > > Congratulations! What did you and your wife name him? When > > exactly was he born, etc? > > > > Give us details!! > > > > :) > > Official name: Tom Wei > Calling name: Tom > Last name: de Vrieze > Gender: male > Nationality: Dutch and Chinese (PRC) > Birthdate: 26-06-2006 > Time of Birth: 10:22am (Netherlands time) > Place of Birth: Radboud University Hospital (Nijmegen) > Commendable choice of forename. Congratulations, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Sources for the entire OS
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:48:41PM -0700, Peter Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Kaarthik Sivakumar wrote: > > Is there a way to get the entire sources for all of the base OS, not > > just the kernel? Like in the BSDs, where under /usr/src you have the > > entire source for the entire OS that you can build and install and you > > will have a full OS. On my gentoo box, under /usr/src I only have the > > linux kernel sources. Thanks. > > you can get the source *tarballs* placed into /usr/portage/distfiles by > doing something like "emerge -e world -f". emerge -ef system will fetch tarballs for just the base system also. This may be closer to what you're looking for. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpTatdvJcTod.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Robert Paskowitz (r2d2)
Hi, Another new developer has joined us to help out with hardened release engineering (releng). His name is Robert Paskowitz and he is currently a second year computer engineering student. He has already made some contributions to genkernel and catalyst, and will now be helping out with the hardened project's release cycle. Robert enjoys cycling, both road and mountain, and also digital photography. Please welcome Robert to the team. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpPpdEYd1v10.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Herbie Hopkins (Herbs)
Hi all, Gentoo/AMD64 is swelling ever more as another developer joins the ranks. His name is Herbie Hopkins and he IRCs as Herbs. In his stage as an Arch Tester (AT) he rebuilt a few emul packages so that 32 bit GTK applications will have working themes, amongst other improvements that a lot of you will notice. Herbie is proficient in C and Bash, and has made a number of patches for various projects already. He's from Essex, England, and he's finishing his Ph.D at the Royal Holloway in Maths/Cryptography at the age of 27. He takes an interest in mountain biking and snowboarding, and is obviously very knowledgeable in cryptography and security. Everyone please welcome Herbie to the team. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpVY0bILtOdO.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config
Hi, Fernando and me have been working on a system for mailwrapper that doesn't involve mangled config file with too many comments and etc-update hell. We're just about to get the thing into Portage and start the transition, so this is a final mail to let people know what's going on. It's going to work like this: New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp, exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al. We also have a companion eclass, mailer.eclass, to go along with the changes. This should make things a lot easier for people but if anyone has any concerns, we'd like to hear them. Thanks, Tom and Fernando -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpYemnND50xJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)
Evening list, and apologies to people where it's not evening, I have the pleasure to tell you all about another new developer. His name is Duncan Coutts, and he lives in Oxford, where he is working towards his PhD in Computer Science. He will be joining the Haskell herd. He's competent in C and Haskell, and is also a developer for the gtk2hs project (gtk2hs.sf.net, GTK2/GNOME bindings for Haskell). Outside of his computing-related hobbies, Duncan enjoys unicycling and amateur drama. With the addition of Duncan to the team, Gentoo now 'owns' half of the International Conference on Functional Programming contest-winning team from 2004 [1]. Of course, the other member is Andres Loeh, also known as kosmikus. Please show Duncan a warm welcome. Best regards, Tom [1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/proj/plclub/contest/results.php -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpGYHyJQ2sPc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Duncan Coutts (dcoutts)
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 12:53:47AM -0700, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Martin posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, > on Fri, 06 May 2005 23:23:01 +0100: > > > I have the pleasure to tell you all about another new developer. His > > name is Duncan Coutts, and he lives in Oxford > > > > Please show Duncan a warm welcome. > > Hi, dcoutts. Another Duncan! =8^) > > I'm not a Gentoo dev (yet?), but I /am/ a regular on the list, and use > "Duncan" both here and on bugzilla as [EMAIL PROTECTED], tho the 1i5t5 > can change when the address starts getting to much spam, and of course > the domain can change. A namespace clash agreement might be beneficial. > > If you have no strong preference, dcoutts would maintain the distinction. > I have a preference, but you are the developer while I'm just a user, so > if you prefer "Duncan", I'll look for something else. (FWIW, Duncan is my > surname, but "John" is my first name, and I always put it this way.. > There's always too many johns around -- unless you need one. Thus, > I've used Duncan both in meatspace and on the net for a number of years. > Surprisingly, perhaps, just plain "Duncan" has clashed less than John > Duncan or jduncan did. Maybe I should now be "Freedomware Duncan"? ) Hehe, the convention is just to use your full name :) No possible confusion. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgprlyyt0jBk9.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Benjamin Smee (strerror)
Hi list, I have a new developer to tell you about. He'll be joining the net-mail herd and his name is Benjamin Smee. He's an Australian by birth, but he is currently living in London and he has also lived in Berlin in the past. He works as a Unix security technician and spends most of his free time working on his home network or learning something new that's computer related. He enjoys playing some MMORPGs, but he's trying to avoid spending too much time on them and instead doing more constructive things :) Look out for him on IRC as strerror, and please welcome him to the team. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:11:38PM +0200, Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * More staff needed > Despite the autodeletion of uptodate packages there has to be > someone attending the list. Remove real spam or uptodate packages > where the targetversion is principally right but not in the correct > format, so the autodeletion doesn't match. How does it fit in with metadata.xml, and the maintainers and herds listed therein? Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgp3AQxB8vKgW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Pinboard of outdated ports
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:47:51AM +0200, Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:46:51PM +0100, Tom Martin wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:11:38PM +0200, Johannes Weiner <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * More staff needed > > > Despite the autodeletion of uptodate packages there has to be > > > someone attending the list. Remove real spam or uptodate packages > > > where the targetversion is principally right but not in the correct > > > format, so the autodeletion doesn't match. > > > > How does it fit in with metadata.xml, and the maintainers and herds > > listed therein? > > I don't get the context. Why metadata.xml? And why maintainers and herds > listed? Well, if this just creates an entry to the list with no mention of the email address of the maintainer, if given in metadata.xml, then it's pretty pointless in my opinion as no-one but the maintainer could/should bump software unless you've got a go-ahead from the maintainer or there are exceptional circumstances. My request is that when a new entry is added to the list, the software used checks the package's metadata.xml and includes the herd and maintainer on the list. If there is a maintainer specified, it sends an email to the maintainer. Maybe it would be better to tell maintainers to just subscribe to projects on freshmeat? Hope that makes sense now, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgp3tqNx5PEdD.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Stuart Longland (Redhatter)
Hi all, A new developer is joining the MIPS port, to help with the Cobalt effort and also to maintain the documentation. His name is Stuart Longland and he lives in Brisbane, Australia where he is two years into his Bachelor of IT (Software Engineering) and Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) combined degree and the Queensland University of Technology. His interests are largely include electronics, programming, RISC computing, networking, web design, his music collection (rock from between the 60s and the 90s, mainly) and bushwalking. Stuart's beginnings with Linux come from his experiences with FreeBSD. He was impressed by the Ports system, and decided to create his own distribution, called Atomic Linux, with a focus on ease of use, source-based package management and a reasonable amount of tweaking. He also aimed to support binary packages like RPMs. He Then two years ago he discovered Gentoo, and he's been picking up ideas for use in his own distribution, and he says that a lot of his developments will come back as patches in our Bugzilla :) Outside of University and computing, Stuart is active within a computer club for autistic adults, run by the Asperger's Syndrome Support Network (http://www.asperger.asn.au/). He maintains the network, and also helps to run the club, which aims to help teach social skills through the use of computers. Shame some people on IRC can't learn social skills through the use of computers ;) Stuart has Asperger's Syndrome hisself, although he writes that he's "learned how to interact with people, however, so these days it's hard for most people to spot." Stuart's enjoying tinkering in the fields of embedded and RISC computing. He has four MIPS machines (Tektronix TekXPress XP338, SGI Indy, SGI Indigo2 Impact and Cobalt Qube2). He hasn't tried Sparc, PA-RISC or ARM, but he is certainly interested. So, with that, please say hi to Stuart if you see him on IRC, and welcome him to the team. Yours incoherently, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpVoIj1udAd5.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Kevin Quinn (kevquinn)
Hi list, I just set Kevin up with CVS access. He's going to be joining the Hardened Gentoo project, in order to help (mainly) with the hardened userland. He's originally from Britain, but he now lives in Italy. He graduated from Manchester University in 1990 with a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics. He's presently working full-time. Kevin has been a long-time contributor to the hardened project, and has been instrumental in providing several key patches for hardened toolchains/userland/headers/multimedia. He has a low level understanding of various assembly languages, as well as C, Ada and sh. Please welcome Kevin to the team. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpupljd9yu5u.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Shyam Mani (fox2mike)
Hi list, Shyam Mani, or fox2mike as some of you know him, has just joined up to help out with documentation. He lives in Bangalore, India, having been born in Dubai. Having just finished his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, he now works for a technology consutancy firm called Exocore. Outside of Linux, photography is one of his main hobbies, and he owns a Nikon Coolpix 5200 to this end. He also writes that aircraft have long interested him, and he would be a pilot if it wasn't for his glasses. He also posts a picture of himself: http://xinetd.accosted.net/personal/dscn1794.jpg So. with that, say hello to fox2mike if you see him around and about and welcome him to the team. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpWWZOTSAxfd.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Chris Hotchkiss (chotchki)
Hi all, Chris has just become a developer, in order to help with the Gentoo Installer project. He's living in Tampa, Florida, where he's taking a MIS Major at the University of South Florida. He enjoys reading (Jordan, Asimov, Eddings, Goodkind), as well as more active hobbies: swimming, volunteering, backpacking and hiking. Besides these, he is a proficient programmer, with experience in C, C++ and the three Ps (Perl, Python and PHP). He's also experienced in web design, where he is learned in many other technologies. If you see Chris on IRC, please make him feel welcome :) Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgp1y30z3v1W1.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Stefan Briesenick (sbriesen)
Hi list, Stefan is joining us to help with the net-dialup herd for isdn-related packages. He comes from Gaggenau in the Alsace region (near the French border, for those unfamiliar with the geography of the region) of Germany and he is 35 years old. Stefan has been married for five years, and he has a son who is two. He works in a job as a Linux administrator and system programmer. He's experienced in many languages (not least C and x86 asm). He's also written a few shareware and freeware programs for OS/2 and DOS in the past, for instance, EasyERP (a FidoNet request processor) and PMEurit (a telephony application for ASCOM Eurit ISDN phones). Please welcome Stefan on board. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgp5ltwwviyuJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Brent Baude (ranger)
Hi list, Brent lives in Rochester, Minnesota, in the US. There he fills his days working for the IBM Corporation as a Team LEad and Linux Consultant, where his primary responsibility is to help people port hteir applications to Linux running on the IBM POWER4, POWER5, and JS20 platforms. While he does use Gentoo for his primary workstation and all his home boxes, Brent's interest in becoming a Gentoo developer is to help support the ppc64 and ppc archs for Gentoo. Of late, it's been in trying to whip the stage building and new livecds into shape. Brent is married and a father of two boys. When not working, he is an avid outdoors-man; specifically, he is most passionate about hunting pheasants, ducks and geese while training his two yellow Labrador Retrievers. Please say 'Hi' to Brent on IRC, and make him feel welcome. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpNxCz9aIMFC.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
Hi list, Bug 97447 wants a logrotate USE flag, which is used by about five packages locally. Unless there are any objections, I'll globalify it later today. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpBtgHxX9V5k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:17:08AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you make the flag global, can you make sure that all of the packages > that use this flag exhibit the same behavior when using it. If they all > do their own thing, then I would suggest leaving it local. > > Global USE flags are not so much a case of x number of packages use it, > but x number of package use it to mean the same thing. I didn't realise that the flag was being used in more than one way -- how else is it being used? Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpdslSsSx0N1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:58:14PM +0300, Alin Nastac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also controls whether a cron script that use native squid log > rotation is installed or not. You cannot select your preferred rotation > mechanism (logrotate or cron job) through other way than useflags. If it's being used like that there, I think I'll just stick to creating another local flag. It's a pretty reasonable compromise, considering some of the criticisms in this thread and the other. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpPFEKbtvTw8.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Marco Morales (soulse)
Hi list, Marco Morales is joining Gentoo to help with the netmon herd. He's known as soulse- on IRC. Marco is from Lima, Peru, is twenty-two years old and has just finished his System Engineer bachelor degree. He currently works for a networking company that uses Gentoo. Outside of computing, he enjoys playing basketball and poker/beer with friends. Marco has experience in C and C++, as well as bash. He is also in the process of learning java, perl and python. Please help me welcome soulse- onboard! Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpfBsxoxgTei.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Stefaan De Roeck (stefaan)
Afternoon list, Another new developer to tell you about. Stefaan joins us from Leuven, Belgium, and will be maintaining the OpenAFS ebuilds. He's an competent C++ programmer, and although he has used other languages in the past, C++ is the language he feels most comfortable with. Stefaan is currently working for a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, specifically, in image processing. He's been producing real-time algorithms for 3D reconstruction and spending time on transferring image data between between different nodes of a cluster, amongst other things. Outside of his research and work, he hasn't really contributed to many public projects besides OpenAFS. He has, however, created a "running contest monitor" program. On a 500 metre track, twenty teams run a relay for 24 hours -- the team who has completed the most laps at the end of the 24 hours wins. The people who started the project had made some hardware to act as infrared transponders, in order to track the runners. The software keeping track of the transponders was a Visual C++ application limited to just that PC. Stefaan has implemented more efficient tracking software, and has integrated a webserver, a java applet showing estimated positions of runners on the tracks, visualisation in opengl on TVs placed around the track, and that kind of thing. Stefaan describes it as "Quite a bit of fun, really."i Stefaan plays the piano, and has been attending singing and viola lessons for about a year. He has also been going to Chinese classes for three years. He is interested in circus acts, and is able to use a diabolo and fold balloons, and understands the knack behind rotating paltes, juggling, devil sticks and that kind of thing. He can even ride a unicycle, provided he has some support -- "at least a finger!" Using these skills, he's helped in organised children's holidays. He says that he enjoys entertaining them, with or without circus acts. Stefaan also has a girlfriend that he is very happy with. She isn't interested in computers that much, but he says that they both complement each other very well. Coincidentally, they met at a viola lesson! So, with that, say 'hi' to Stefaan on IRC and do your best to welcome him to the team. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpHPem4HPn7w.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] New developer: Edgar Hucek (gimli)
Hi again list, One more new developer is on board. Edgar is going to be reviving the Xbox port of Gentoo. I must apologise for this email being slightly late: I must apologise for this email being slightly late. Some of you may recognise gimli_xbox from IRC -- it's the same chap. Edgar works as a freelance developer, consultant and administrator. Previously, he worked for a telecoms company where he did some software development on Windows and sysadmin on Solaris machines. At the moment he works for a bank. Largely he's dealing with Windows, but he also has three Linux machines with Oracle. As for his hobbies, Edgar has been working on the Xbox-Linux project since it started. He also enjoys listening to music, watching films, hanging around with his friends, and being, in his own words, a "couch potato." He's interested in multimedia on Linux, and is also a bit of an Open Source advocate. Please give me a hand in giving Edgar a very warm welcome. Regards, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpM5UVQuLfzk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Edgar Hucek (gimli)
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 08:30:37PM +0100, Tom Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One more new developer is on board. Edgar is going to be reviving the > Xbox port of Gentoo. I must apologise for this email being slightly > late: I must apologise for this email being slightly late. Some of you > may recognise gimli_xbox from IRC -- it's the same chap. What I *meant* to say was 'I must apologise for this email being slightly late: Edgar has already made a couple of commits.' Sorry for my raving lunacy. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpiwMFvAjbiV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:12:54AM +0200, "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We seem to be heading towards a situation where the x86 arch > team do all marking of stuff stable on x86. This I like. > Some observations - these may be phrased in the affirmative > but please take them as observations/suggestions :) > > 1) The x86 arch team will need to be large(ish) to keep pace. >Herds could nominate one of their members to join the >team; that'd get a fair amount of tree coverage quickly. > > 2) The job of the x86 arch team members should be to arrange, >collect and collate testing results, not to do the actual >testing themselves. Note this means being a member of the >x86 arch team is a management role rather than a development >or test role. I'm not sure I like this. I think it would be too slow. I'd rather have a concept of maintainer arch (the reason I still like the old keyword ordering, because there was at least *some* idea of maintainer arch. In fact, I used to fiddle the keywords every now and again when I took over a package and the maintainer arch changed). Policy, for a long time, has been that no arch team should go stable ahead of a package maintainer without his approval. This works fine. Now, some packages are going into Portage without the x86 keyword (for example, viewglob, which I recently committed. I don't have an x86 machine) and a non-x86 maintainer. All that we need is an x86 arch team to do the same jobs as other architectures: a) Test packages that aren't yet keyworded. b) Keep keywords up-to-date -- imlate. Although imlate currently compares against x86 by default, scanning x86 against a few other archs isn't a major bottleneck. c) Keep up with security bugs, with a proper security contact. Tester, I believe you're filling this role at the moment? d) Possibly arch testers. Maybe I'm seeing this all wrong, but the fact is, the number of packages that need x86 arch team lovin' are pretty small, despite the number of overall keyworded packages being large. I don't think the x86 arch team needs to be very large: I think ten developers is plenty. I just don't know what they'd be doing if there were more. Thoughts? -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgp2OqZs2oTzJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted buglist needs attention
List, There are currently 1066 open bugs assigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Could everyone please take a moment to scan through them? Thanks, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgphgySeHbeZr.pgp Description: PGP signature
