Join the Gentoo Development team – Part I

December 20, 2008 · Posted in Gentoo

Saturday evening… Haven’t written for a while…

There is not much to do (Gentoo wise). I am testing qt-* beta ebuilds in order to commit them on kde-crazy overlay. I was pretty busy for the last two weeksl. I completed the ebuild quiz and sent it to my mentor ( yngwin ) for review. I also got my personal bug number plus I got access on kde-crazy overlay . Suddenly I feel quite more resposible about anything that happens around Gentoo. I am testing the ebuilds again and again in order to make sure that everything is ok. Commiting ebuilds on a public overlay which is directly available to users is a huge thing. You need to make sure that your ebuilds won’t brake their systems and flood you with bugs.

Apart from this, hopefully , I will join Daniel on Gentoo kernel team, when my training period is done. I have so many things to learn though. But I need to thank all those people who encourage me doing my first steps on Gentoo development.

Thank you yngwin,tampakrap, pchrist, scarabeus, Tommy[D] ( I hope I don’t forget someone :) ).

Tags: development, Gentoo

Comments

8 Responses to “Join the Gentoo Development team – Part I”

Vasilis on December 21st, 2008 9:10 pm

Hi Markos,

I didn’t know you were recruited as a Gentoo developer. Congrats! It’s nice to have more people working on FOSS. When will your training period end?

Vasilis
Markos on December 21st, 2008 9:15 pm

Hi Vasilis,

This period is almost up to a month. To complete it, I need to send one more quiz about ebuild writting etc… This quiz is called “final quiz”. Unfortunatelly I dont have that link now.
Hopefully by the end of January , I will be a full gentoo developer. Hopefully I will solve some of your bugs :)
Eleftherios Kosmas on December 21st, 2008 9:38 pm

Good luck, and keep the gears turning ;-)
Markos on December 21st, 2008 9:59 pm

Thank you very much :)
Vasilis on December 22nd, 2008 12:47 am

Markos,

It would be nice to write a post on your blog regarding the recruitment process (of course after you finish it). :)

Thanks!
Markos on December 22nd, 2008 3:10 pm

I have done an abstract review of the whole process so far on this post. Training period is not that big a deal . You just need to help ,as much as you can ,the teams you ll join in the future.
So basically from now on I will have to help qt/kde team and kernel team. We are currently working on kde-crazy overlay the ebuilds for kde-4.2_beta2. When kde-4.2 becomes official , you will have it on portage as soon as possible by moving those ebuilds from kde-crazy to portage.
Concerning the kernel team , there are few bugs at the moment so I dont need to spend much time there. From what I see on #gentoo-* channels, we will have many greek developers on Gentoo the next 2-3 months.
Yeiiiii :)
Panagiotis Atmatzidis on December 25th, 2008 12:26 pm

Congratulations then,

I didn’t had a clue that you were running for the dev team. Good going :-)
Markos on December 25th, 2008 12:52 pm

Many thanks :)

Merry Xmas :)