Join the Gentoo Development team – Part ΙΙ

February 7, 2009 · Posted in Gentoo · 10 Comments

…or jumping the gap. A couple of days ago I joined the Gentoo Development Team :). I will be on KDE/Qt Herds. However, there are many things to be done on Qt eclasses ( qt4.eclass and qt4-build.eclass ) so I will focus on them for now. The responsibilities suddenly grow but I guess thats normal. After all, that was my decision. Not much else to say. I guess I should start messing with portage tree now :) .

Being a gentoo user for 3 years and now serving it , is a weird feeling. I would encourage people to join development team. You can deal with anything you like. KDE, Gnome, alsa, kernel. There are so many projects to participate :).

On the other hand , if you dont have much time you can join Arch teams and test packages for your arch and mark them stable or something. This is quite important if you want more and more packages to be on the tree :)

For those who really dont have time at all, filling a bug is more than appreciated. If you fill a bug , we will be able to fix it. Dont keep bugs for yourself, and dont accept bugs as normal behavior. It will cost you 5′ to fill a bug, but those 5′ will be beneficial for the rest of Gentoo users.

So, about Qt, two days ago Qt-4.5.0_rc1 was released. As a result we bumped Qt-4.50_beta1 to Qt-4.5.0_rc1. qt-copy has been also moved towards 4.5.0_rc1 hence we dropped 4.4.9999 packages and bring the shiny new 4.5.9999. Futhermore there first Qt-creator release candidate version is on our overlay too.

Feel free to try them and report any issues you find either to me or #gentoo-kde on freenode servers.

There is also a topic on Gentoo forums about our overlay.

Finally , I would like to thank Alex (wired) for testing and giving feedback for Qt-live packages.

Hope to see you around :)

Tags: <core, development, Gentoo, qt>

Join the Gentoo Development team – Part I

December 20, 2008 · Posted in Gentoo · 8 Comments

Saturday evening… Havent written for a while…

There is no much to do (gentoo wise). I am testing qt-* beta ebuilds in order to commit them on kde-crazy overlay. The last two weeks were so full. I completed the ebuild quiz and sent it to my mentor ( yngwin ) to review it. 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 directly available to users is a huge thing. You need to make sure that your ebuilds wont 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] ( sorry if I forget somebody ).

Tags: <core, development, Gentoo>