Gentoo Proxy Maintainers project is now live!

August 24, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · 5 Comments

As I promised, one of my goals this year is to create a more efficient ebuild maintenance channel between users and developers. The outcome is a new project called “Proxy maintainers“[1]. This is basically an e-mail alias including all developers who want to act as proxy maintainers. If you are a user, grab your favorite orphaned package[2] and contact us to review it and commit it on your behalf. This project has the potential to expand even further, e.g. have a single overlay were we can work together on maintainer-needed@ ebuilds before we push them on portage tree. This is a fresh shiny project so ideas are more than welcomed ;). If you haven’t heard before about ‘proxy-maintainers’ have a look on my previous blog posts[3]

[1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml

[2]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml

[3]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/tag/proxy-maintainer/

Tags: Gentoo, proxy-maintainer

Where is Qt-4.8?

August 13, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · Comment

It’s been more than a year since I wrote something about Qt. This is mainly because I retired myself from the team and focused on other teams that needed urgent attention. However, lately I had some spare time to contribute to Qt again and update 4.9999 ebuilds to a working state. Furthermore, I pushed some initial ebuilds for Qt-4.8.0_beta1 and Qt-4.8.9999. Both sets are merged successfully on my testing boxes so they should by ready for you to test them. Qt-creator-2.3.0_rc is located in qting-edge overlay as well, but because it requires >=Qt-4.7.4 it makes no sense to commit it to portage. So if you want to use it, then you have to use >=Qt-4.7.9999 ebuilds :)

If you have any problems, please use forums[1] to report them or open a bug on https://bugs.gentoo.org.

[1]http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-730187.html

Tags: Gentoo, qt, qting-edge

Gentoo Screenshot Contest 2011

August 4, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · Comment

Yes we are doing this again. In case you haven’t noticed it yet, we are running another screenshot competition this year. 28 days left before the deadline, so you have plenty of time to beautify your desktops :) More information can be found here[1].

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/pr/2011-screenshot-contest.xml

Tags: Gentoo, screenshots

Council Manifesto 2011

June 28, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · 18 Comments

Well I know what you’re thinking. Something along these lines “Dude, seriously? You made so much noise and now you are running for council?” Well, this is the point isn’t it? If someone makes so much noise and complains about something, the only natural thing for him is to step up and try to obtain the “needed” authority to push these changes. Most of you know who I am, either in person or by our long discussions on IRC and ML, and you know that politics is not one of my skills ;-) . I am not good in self-promotion and I am not going to come up with a fancy speech to convince you to vote for me. To be honest, I don’t think I need one. My activity is the best way to understand how hard I try to help Gentoo. I sincerely hope the new council will be mature enough to focus on important things , bring innovation within Gentoo, and make developers happy and willing to dedicate time for Gentoo ( /me crossed fingers ).

Manifesto: http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang/council201106-manifesto.xml

Tags: council, Gentoo

AMD64 Test Request: X11 and friends

June 19, 2011 · Posted in Gentoo · 5 Comments

This is yet another amd64 test request :). I consider every X11 stabilization quite critical since it affects pretty much all Gentoo users. So, if you feel bored and you want to do a selfless good deed, do some testing on the following two bugs[1][2] and report back :)

Thanks

Update: These packages are now stable on amd64 architecture. Thank you all for your reports

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371857

[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371779

Tags: amd64, Gentoo

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