{"id":8,"date":"2007-03-07T00:14:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T20:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:10:01","slug":"my_4th_gentoo_developer_anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/pylon\/2007\/03\/07\/my_4th_gentoo_developer_anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"My 4th Gentoo developer anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time passes so fast&#8230; Today is my fourth anniversary as a Gentoo developer.  I&#8217;m using Gentoo on the PowerPC-platform since the 1.4-days in 2002, when I first heard about it.  And as the PowerPC-installation was a big pain at that time, I helped out making it better and sent in some patches for ebuilds.  After a very short time, Gerk made me a developer, so that I could commit the patches myself.<\/p>\n<p>I think, it&#8217;s time to sum up my activities within Gentoo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PowerPC\n<ul>\n<li>Starting with patches for <a href=\"http:\/\/maconlinux.sourceforge.net\">Mac-on-Linux<\/a> (which is now more or less in Gentoo&#8217;s hand, as JoseJX adopted this project after more than one year of just laying around), I stabilised a lot of packages and worked on the installation instructions for the PowerPC documentation.<\/li>\n<li>Later I helped out pvdabeel with the release, as he was short in time during his thesis-period; now I&#8217;m still the one who works on the release, but unfortunately with less time for the 2007.0-release.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still the so-called Strategical Lead for Gentoo\/PPC, but only as nobody else wants to do that job and that a Gentoo project needs such a position to fulfill the requirements for being an official project.  This team really does not need both an operational and strategical lead.  One position would be enough.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genesi.lu\">Genesi<\/a> sponsored a Pegasos and an EFIKA.  The Pegasos just built again the G4-release and I use it quite daily for testing PowerPC-packages, as this is my only strong PowerPC-machine left.  I will spend more time with the EFIKA once I finished my diploma-thesis&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Documentation\/GWN\n<ul>\n<li>I helped out in the documentation team with translating into my native tongue.  Some time later I became the leader of the German translation team and could bring the documentation into a good shape, but handed over this job to dertobi123 (who gave it to grahl last year).<\/li>\n<li>Then I worked on some English documents and the XML\/XSLT for the website generation.  Mostly small tweaks for a better layout, but I added an XML-checker into CVS as some devs committed broken files and broke the whole webpage&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I made some contributions to the GWN and even assembled it completely for a couple of times in 2005 and 2006 when the GWN-editor plate was not available.  But I did not want to do that job weekly and so I&#8217;m happy that wolf31o2 does it now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CVS and SVN server\n<ul>\n<li>Somehow our infrastructure-team learned in 2003 that I was working on a quite large CVS implementation during my part-time-job.  And as there was no CVS maintainer for Gentoo I received access to the server and took care for it from then on.  This is a job I still do, as it does not require much attention.  It just works \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>In 2005 we added SubVersion for Gentoo own projects to this server.  This was a quite hard job for me, as I was neither an SVN admin nor user, so I had to read quite a lot of the documentation.  But trapni helped me a lot and in the end this is a service which also just runs and does not need much attention (beside the big server move we made two weeks ago).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>F<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time passes so fast&#8230; Today is my fourth anniversary as a Gentoo developer. I&#8217;m using Gentoo on the PowerPC-platform since the 1.4-days in 2002, when I first heard about it. And as the PowerPC-installation was a big pain at that time, I helped out making it better and sent in some patches for ebuilds. 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