As a normal day on the IRC, I met redeeman like many others, by coinsidence ;) First of all he got the open source spirit, where he plays around with everything, where other people would say: "why?", like encoding music in bzip (voice didn't seem to work though) or running a very spare system (because I can). Some of his documented projects: Redeeman-Sources: http://kaspersandberg.com/~redeeman/Redeeman-Sources/ (not online 24/7) I know he takes a close look on what happens in the kernel-world, and in close contact with Love-Sources and steel300. For Gentoo Linux, he has done some things too: Catalyst support: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1059162#1059162 Mailserver-guide, courier imap/smtp/pop3: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=144837&highlight= ALSA Sound Mixing guide (dmix): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122076&highlight= Reiser4 enabled Live CD: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=161783&highlight= I think he would contribute to the Gentoo dev-community, since he is pretty much already a dev ;) He is interested in doing work for the LiveCD and/or portage-maintaining.
Portage and LiveCD folks, do you need anybody?
Portage help starts with finding and fixing bugs. Post patches. Hang out in #gentoo-portage. The contributions are good so far, but they don't show any particulars about portage and I don't recognise the name. Demonstrate that you're capable. Demonstrate that you're interested and not going to leave soon. Demonstrate that you're useful.
I'm just a user, but I'd like to put my two cents in. Redeeman has made his own livecd which is reiser4 capable, he has a ton of useful ebuilds which I have used for new stuff that is not yet in portage. Check out the link posted in the original message. His site has tons of stuff on it. Quite frankly, I don't know why this guy isn't already a dev. Just my two cents -- some guy
So what's the verdict? Does anyone want to take on Redeeman as his mentor?
As far as the LiveCD goes, all we really need are testers right now. The LiveCD herd is really small (just me) and I only maintain a very small number of packages. The actual LiveCD's for releases are created by a member of each arch, whom is also a member of releng. Perhaps he would do better to start hanging out in #gentoo-releng and joining the gentoo-releng mailing list, as I am sure zhen and company could use some more help on that front.
No mentor, closing
Well, let me see if I can describe him in a few words. I see him as a guy who wants to help as many people as possible, and gets things working fast, efficient and stable. I have been using some of his guides in the forums, and some of his ebuilds from fluidportage, and both works like a charm, he almost always has two minutes to look at somethings, and often comes up with a solution within a few minutes.
Primary mentor: me Secondary mentor: Chris White Interested in working on ebuilds, specifically in the video area.
Objection.
Didn't he maintain silly kernel source packages outside of portage that broke people's machines and created numerous invalid bug reports? You might want to reconsider making this guy a dev...
#9> Because he likes reiser4 and you don't? (Sorry, couldn't help it) #10> If he isn't going to work on kernels, that doesn't matter, does it?
#11 -- no, because he's repeatedly shown himself to be totally unsuitable for acting for Gentoo in any official or recognised capacity.
He has also taken other people's work and posted it the forums as his own.
Too much negative feedback from existing developers, both on here and on IRC. Sorry redeeman.
Too bad Gentoo again loses an interesting object, because of some individuals have a different opponion. He has a passion for hacking, especially Gentoo, and he has a worry like the rest of us, that Gentoo will end up as Debian or such; slow and boring. Well, enough with the flamewars, this seems to be the end of this bug.
You're saying we should recruit any daft ricer who makes a noise?
The fact is I recieved too many concerns from developers that I know and trust. I don't even know redeeman or his capabilities, but we are a community project, and there is no way he would be accepted into the community right now. He may be technically skilled, but theres more to it than that.
