Gentoo News

Summary

Gentoo is made up of 243 active developers, of which 42 are currently away. Gentoo has recruited a total of 685 developers since its inception.

Moves

The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:

• None this month

Adds

The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:

• Lars Wendler joined the Bugzilla team

Changes

The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:

• Caleb Tennis left the KDE and Qt teams
• Matteo Azzali left the KDE team
• Stefan Schweizer left the KDE team
• Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis joined the Python team
• Mounir Lamouri joined the VOIP team
• Gordon Malm joined the Ruby team
• Tony Vroon left the PPC64 team and joined the Xfce team

Summary

Gentoo is made up of 242 active developers, of which 42 are currently away. Gentoo has recruited a total of 684 developers since its inception.

Moves

The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:

Note: The number is higher than usual because several inactive developers were retired as per Gentoo policy. This operation is performed on a regular basis by the Undertakers project.

• Fernando J. Pereda
• Joshua Nichols
• Christian Marie
• Martin Ehmsen
• Anant Narayanan
• Vic Fryzel
• Chris Henhawke
• Michal Kurgan
• Ali Polatel
• Aggelos Orfanakos
• Saleem Abdulrasool
• Joshua Ross
• Matt Fleming
• Marius Mauch
• Sven Vermeulen
• Jan Hendrik Grahl

Adds

The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:

• George Kadianakis joined the kernel team
• Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis joined the crypto team
• Vadim Kuznetsov joined the Scheme team
• Christian Ruppert joined the Sunrise project

Changes

The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:

• Tony Vroon joined the VOIP team
• Nirbheek Chauhan joined the Mozilla team
• Thilo Bangert joined the vserver team
• Alexey Shvetsov joined the sci-chemistry and Xen teams
• José Luis Rivero left the Alpha team
• Markus Rothe left the PPC team
• Andrew Gaffney joined the LiveCD team
• Nicholas D. Wolfwood joined the LiveCD team
• Jeroen Roovers joined the LiveCD team
• Peter Volkov joined the LiveCD team
• Jesus Rivero joined the accessibility team
• Patrick McLean joined the Python team

Gentoo Forums moderator Sylvain Alain was interviewed twice by LinuxCrazy.

In the first interview, he introduces himself and discusses his work inside and outside Gentoo.

In the second interview, he discusses wireless networking and Gentoo. He explains how to setup wireless networking from start to finish using the Intel iwl3945 and Atheros ath5k drivers.

Gentoo developer Hanno Boeck was recently interviewed by the FSFE.

In the interview, Hanno discusses his Gentoo work, software freedom, other development areas, and more. It's an enlightening interview, so be sure to read it!.

Summary

Gentoo is made up of 251 active developers, of which 42 are currently away. Gentoo has recruited a total of 677 developers since its inception.

Moves

The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:

• None since December 2008

Adds

The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:

• Michael Münch joined the German documentation team
• Theo Chatzimichos joined the KDE team
• Markos Chandras joined the KDE team
• Alexey Shvetsov joined the KDE team
• Rudy Grigar joined the Infrastructure team
• Alex Legler joined the Ruby and Security teams

Changes

The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:

• Tobias Klausmann is the new Alpha Arch Team lead
• Patrick Lauer joined the forensics, KDE, and Python teams
• Friedrich Oslage joined the LXDE team
• Sebastien Fabbro joined the Python team
• Donnie Berkholz left the science, high availability cluster, and high performance cluster teams
• Andrey Kislyuk joined the high performance cluster team
• Peter Alfredsen joined the video team
• Raúl Porcel joined the Kernel and s390 teams
• Ben de Groot joined the desktop-wm team
• Zac Medico joined the tools-portage team
• Olivier Crête joined the gstreamer team
• Heath Caldwell left the kerberos team
• Jim Ramsay joined the vim team