Bugzilla Bug 23718

Name: Max Kalika
Physical location: California
Email: max@lsit.ucsb.edu
Areas of responsibility: Various ebuilds
@gentoo.org Email: Not added
List subscription: Not added
CVS Access: Not added
IRC Access: alkern - Not added
Bugzilla: Unchanged
Mentor: johnm
Announced: No
Began probationary period 29 June 03 ends 13 July 03

johnm, do you mind mentoring Max?

Max, please submit work through johnm via whatever method johnm prefers for two
weeks. Also, contact me on IRC and I'll get you set up with autovoice on
#gentoo-dev.

This is something I can most certainly do.
Welcome to the team Max :)

I can't thank you enough!  So at the rist of sounding goofy right off the bat,
I suppose the first question is... what do I do now? :-)

Basically, we have a two week 'trial period' during which you submit work
through a mentor (johnm). At the end of that, if you haven't screwed the pooch
too badly, you get full dev status (and a @gentoo.org mail, etc).

Dunno if johnm prefers IRC/mail/bugzilla for work submissions, though.

actually, I have an interest in max as well because of his mythtv stuff.

max -- first order of business in this is to get xmltv/mythtv as bulletproof as possible, please.  I'd really like to sort out the Myth* finally. (and btw, I'm looking to you for media-tv maintenance as well).

no pressure, eh? :-)   On a serious note...  I had the 0.8 version running
solid as a rock.  The 0.9 has given me some grief which I'm sorting out right
now -- has nothing to do with the ebuilds or the installation procedure.  I
work with 3 other people that have each gotten xmltv/myth* stuff running
flawlessly.  The only current thing I don't like in the mythtv ebuild is the
patch/sed hackishness which changes where mythtv looks for config files from
/usr/etc/mythtv to just /etc/mythtv.  It looks in /usr/share/mythtv as well and
the current cvs only has one config file (mysql.txt) left so it might actually
make sense to just link /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt to /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt
and avoid sed all together.  I did something similar in my custom mailman
ebuild:

http://68.6.36.243:81/chora/co.php/portage/net-mail/mailman/mailman-2.1.2.ebuild?r=1.1

On a side note... To be honest I don't know if I can take on all of media-tv
because I have very limited experience with those apps.  Freevo was too clunky
when I tried it and I would feel very bad taking on something that I couldn't
commit as much time to as everything else.

I could devote a lot of time to server-related things in net-mail and net-www
as that is what I have to do for work anyway.  In particular postfix, cyrus,
apache, and php apps.  One thing that got me real interested is the idea of
consolidating all web-apps to a central directory (I believe /usr/share/web was
mentioned as a candidate) where versioned app directories could reside and be
linked to the system DocRoot at the users' whim.  As this is the way I have
such things organized on my servers, I got started on a webapp eclass to use
locally.  If this is something people could benifit from, I'll be glad to take
this on as a pet project.

Just so you know max:
email: johnm@gentoo.org
jabber: johnm@gentoo.org.uk
icq: 8286147
msn: johndmylchreest@microsoft.com
and im almost always in #gentoo-dev on irc.freenode.net

Your more than welcome to submit work through any of these methods, and ask me anything you like. i can give you all the low-down on seemant and his dirty habits ;)

As seemant mentioned, he would like you to sort the mythtv stuff, and id love to see some of it as well, as i might just drag out this dusty wintv card for it :)

Do you IRC much? if not just drop us a mail ;)

Set up.

Reassigning bugs to recruiters...

Reassigning bugs to recruiters...

Reassigning bugs to recruiters...

No bugs or cvs activity since december 2004, retiring.

Still listed as maintainer of

app-arch/freeze
app-backup/flexbackup
app-shells/rssh
media-libs/libdv
media-libs/libcdaudio
media-video/avifile
net-misc/dhcp
sys-auth/libnss-mysql/
sys-fs/trustees


www-apps/nut

Re-assigned open bugs to maintainer-needed.

Infra, please retire max.

Retired

All done.