| Summary: | Retire: Max Kalika (max) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Developers/Staff | Reporter: | Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) <avenj> |
| Component: | New Developers | Assignee: | Gentoo Community Relations Team <comrel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | infra-bugs, johnm, klieber, max, seemant |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Jon Portnoy (RETIRED)
2003-06-29 12:43:51 UTC
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. |