On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 06:47 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:33:15PM -0500, Matthew Kennedy wrote: > > > If you have an interest in Scheme and the Gentoo project, I encourage > > you to go through the new developer process and start maintaining > > these Scheme ebuilds. > > I am interested in Scheme and the Gentoo project, but I am not a > developer. As was posted on the latest GWN, maybe it would be a good > idea to enter the recruiting process so that I would become a developer > and help the scheme herd. > > I am a professor at the Computer Science department of an university on > my country. As a professor I have interests on programming languages, in > particular, functional programming languages.
Yay! :-) We can always do with more people with an interest in functional programming languages. We have fairly strong Haskell and Caml teams but seem to be quite short on people interested in the untyped lisp-like functional languages. > Currently I am at the end of a compiler construction course, and next > I will start teaching an Object Oriented Programming course to > Computer Science undergraduates. I also teach FP, compilers and OOP to undergraduates :-) > I hope I qualify to the "job". So you've clearly got great credentials. The process to qualify involves learning a lot about how Gentoo works, including management, ebuilds, portage, cvs and bug tracking. As others have said, the best way to start is to look at fixing some open bugs or contributing new ebuilds. You'll want to take a look at the Gentoo developer handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml In particular here is the section on becoming a developer: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2 -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
