Josh Saddler

I'd like to use this blog to give a great big shout-out of thanks to my fellow developer (and fellow Josh) Joshua Jackson, aka tsunam.

This guy just spent a solid hour -- a straight hour of his time helping me with my ebuild quiz, going over the points I really need to know. Wow, just wow. If that's not a gracious gesture, a sign that there is still good in the world, I don't know what is.

I'm now so much closer to my self-declared goal of being more helpful, to be more able to do stuff for Gentoo in the future. I love the GDP, always will. But I'm the kind of person that likes to do a lot of everything, not just learn, but see about applying the knowledge, so that's why I'd like to be a dev in other areas besides the GDP. So far, I'm interested in helping out with x86 and the mobile herd, and if I get this quiz done right (after learning so much!), then maybe that will be even more of a reality.

I had fun last night doing some testing and confirming of a bad patch that was added to madwifi-ng (the lifeblood of my connection) along with dsd and steev, as well as troubleshooting baselayout "problems" (that largely weren't, thanks UberLord -- and that's just a bit of all the ways I can and would like to help out.

And when I get around to building this amd64 machine (soon-ish?), maybe a long way down the road I can help out there, although I bet initially I'll need a lot of help getting used to a completely different arch, and not starting out with many of "the answers" to setting up, using, and maintaining it. I can do it for x86; it's all I've used with Gentoo. Problem-solving is pretty straightforward, given enough time to learn this stuff over and over again and apply experience. AMD64, though . . . whole new pickle. Once I get my feet under me, though, I intend to help where I can, where I'm wanted.

I'm now a step closer to all that, I hope. tsunam, here's to you!