Long time no blog… I kinda stopped doing this lark ‘properly’ when I left Gentoo earlier this year (and I say ‘properly’ as when I did blog, it wasn’t anything all that big… nono, some of it was!) But. Now that I’m back as a developer for Gentoo (yes, if you haven’t already “locked-up yer ebuilds” like you would lock up your daughters [hah!], you’re too late!), and I have this here blog, so I figure that I may as well use it. 🙂
I also have so much to write about, but I don’t really want to fill the whole front page of planet.g.o with it; so, here is a little break-down of things that I’m working on related to Gentoo.
Developing for Freenode
Yes yes, it is indeed true. As those of you on IRC may have seen from my hostmask (aka ‘cloak’), I am a Freenode developer. But how does this relate to Gentoo, pray tell? Well, it does and it doesn’t. Gentoo’s primary IRC network (if there is such a thing) is Freenode; we have developers there, we have users there, and we have plenty of channels there. Without Freenode (or another network that could handle our collective ‘load’ – bandwidth, services, servers all over the world, etc), Gentoo would be screwed.
So, yeah, you now have one Freenode staffer (Christel) and one Freenode developer (me) in the ranks. 😉 (And, if you do happen to notice bugs, or think of anything which may be useful if implimented in Freenode’s services/related software, please do let me know via email.)
Gentoo Things
I came back with the interest of helping out the Perl team again, as well as possibly working with the web/server folks (web-apps, www-servers, etc – Hi, Stu! :P), and possibly the kernel team. I’m slowly getting back into those teams (have been helping out with AXKit updating, and squashing some www-* bugs – mainly lighttpd), but the kernel team… not so.
It turns out that my help isn’t required when it comes to the kernel. I have to say, I can sort of understand why; my “new dev” announcement had a mistake in it which was my fault – I said that I wanted to help the kernel team, but because the email was of course sent to -dev@g.o, it “looked” like an official statement. Not only that, but when I talked to one of the higher-up kernel team members – after they had “complained” that I should not have said that I wanted to help them, essentially – I was told that my help wasn’t required. Which kinda made me curious, as another team member told me that the kernel team always needed more eyes, etcetera. I guess personal grudges exist everywhere, eh? 🙂
Another funny thing relating to that “rant” up there… I spoke to another prominent kernel team member shortly thereafter, and to say they were quite suprised that I would not infact be helping them – yeah, my knowledge of the USB and related subsystems really wouldn’t have helped anyone – would be a very large understatement. 😛
Action Is Eloquence
Anyway, enough blogging for now; time to finish off some remaining “things” in my queue and get off to bed! Otherwise, I shan’t be able to start work on pkgcore tomorrow! 🙂