On Wednesday 25 May 2016 18:19:38 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be > > willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package > > maintenance. As I've said many times in recent years, my days of coding > > expired about 25 years ago, and then it was in very different systems > > from Linux. > These days it's a lot easier to get practice because you don't have to > deal with CVS. If you clone our git repo as your $PORTDIR, then you can > make your changes and `repoman commit` just like the rest of us. If > you're okay with Github, you can create pull requests there from that > same clone.
Aye, there's the rub. Git is a closed book to me at the moment. Having to learn how to use it would at least triple my time to get up to speed. Time, I have plenty of (DV, as they say in religious circles), but my brain doesn't go nearly as well as it did 40 years ago. > You should probably read through the entire devmanual once, but there's > no substitute for practice and asking questions. Sounds like good advice - I'll go and find it now. > There are a lot of easy bugs open on bugs.gentoo.org that you could fix > to get experience. If you fix something in a maintainer-needed package > and post a pull request, I don't see why we couldn't just merge it. > You'll get good feedback that way. In fact, in the worst case, if > gummiboot drops to maintainer-needed, you could fix bugs and make > version bumps that way without the commitment of being the maintainer. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile. -- Rgds Peter
