RIPE Atlas is a project of the non-profit RIPE NCC with the goal to allow people to effectively measure the internet. Here's the official line on it: - - - The RIPE NCC is building the largest Internet measurement network ever made. RIPE Atlas employs a global network of probes that measure Internet connectivity and reachability, providing an unprecedented understanding of the state of the Internet in real time. - - - As part of the project, we've been putting together a command-line utility to allow the public to query meta data, pull down result data, and even create measurements of their own. It's called Magellan and the code is here: https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-tools As one of the primary developers on the project, and a long time user of Gentoo, I thought this might make for a good opportunity to develop some ebuilds for the project. It's my first attempt, but as they're all just simple Python, so they're not complicated: https://github.com/danielquinn/ripe-atlas-overlay As I understand it, if I'd like these packages to be included into the portage tree, I need to submit a ticket here and see about getting a maintainer to accept them with me as the proxy. Long term, I'd be happy to take these three packages on as a proper developer, but I understand that there's a lengthy process first to make that happen.
Adding proxy-maint since the OP wants to maintain it
Due to recent distraction, just found this now. Please bring up this link https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers. I can either proxy you directly or under the Proxy-Maintainers project since I belong to both. I suggest you join in the irc channel listed in the link. I shall look at these ebuilds soon. I can also assist in the topic of becoming a developer down the track. Thanks for the contribution
