Gentoo Dev
2 weeks. On May 11, barring problems, I become an official Gentoo Developer, part of the AMD64 arch team. This is, needless to say, a good thing, and I’m really looking forward to it.
There are several things I’d like to work on. First, I’d like to work on getting amd64 current w.r.t. x86. Very soon, amd64 will become the primary architecture in the world, and it currently needs work. The current amd64 devs are doing a great job, but there’s a huge amount of software to port/test, and it’s a constantly moving target. We’re all volunteers. Second, I’d like to join the Gnome herd, and work on getting gnome released stabalized faster. At the current rate, we’re half way to the next Gnome release by the time the previous one is marked stable. Again, not a slight for the gnome team, they need help. There’s a lot to do there.
One of the things I’d like to do to help speed this up is to include development releases of Gnome in the main portage tree. This would let us iron out problems and test during the development stage, rather than waiting until the release, and hopefully that will speed up the release of the stable versions. Of course, this all depends on the approval of the existing Gnome devs, so we’ll see.
All in all, I’m really looking forward to being a dev. Being an AT has been frustrating, due to lack of access to CVS, and to not being able to actually *do* anything other than tell others what I’ve found out. I’m use to fixing problems, not just reporting them.
