[gentoo-dev] Bugday reminder

2005-11-04 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Just a friendly reminder that bugday starts in a few hours and as usual lasts most of the weekend. New this time is a new amd64 bugs category but appart from that bugday should be it's old friendly self :) As usual we gather around the campfire in #gentoo-bugs on irc://irc.freenode.net an

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread kloeri
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:28:33AM +0100, Grobian wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >Motivation > >== > > > >There are currently several ways of getting news out to our users, none of > >them > >particularly effective: > > This assumes the following ways are really ineffective, something

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-05 Thread kloeri
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:29:28PM +0100, Grobian wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >You must not have read the [#forums-whining]_ reference as that makes it > >quite clear that existing methods isn't adequate. Even if you think the > >apache maintainers made lots of mistakes you can't really fau

[gentoo-dev] (Late) bugday announcement

2006-01-07 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Sorry about the late announcement but today is the monthly Bugday :) I hope we'll still see a lot of people turning up in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net to help squash some bugs and have a fun time with other gentoo users and/or devs. Regards, Bryan Østergaard -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Jokey (Markus Ullmann)

2006-01-28 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Markus has been contributing to gentoo through bugzilla and bugdays for a few months and have now finally joined the ranks of official Gentoo developers. Markus is going to help with netmon related ebuilds. Markus tells us about himself: "I'm a 23 year old geek, trying to spread linux ar

[gentoo-dev] New forums staffer: mark_alec (Mark Kowarsky)

2006-02-08 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Mark_alec just joined the team as our newest global forums moderator. I'm sure he's already well known on our busy forums :) He writes about himself: "I am a 16 year high school student who is interested in computers, physics, chemistry and maths. I also am part of a very successful scho

[gentoo-dev] New developer: deltacow (Scott Stoddard)

2006-02-08 Thread kloeri
Hi all. I've got another new victim to present :) Scott is joining the amd64 team that he's already been a part of for the last few months helping out as an AT (arch tester). Scott has experience with C/C++, Java, Python, SQL and is a long time Gentoo user. Scott writes: "I've been heavily invol

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Alfredo Tupone (Tupone)

2006-03-06 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Alfredo has joined the Gentoo team to help with the games herd. I'm sure he'll have a fun time "testing" all those games :) Alfredo writes about himself: "I live in Rome, Italy. Well, I used to live there. Now I'm some kilometers away. I own a club, not alone, that is about open source,

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Emanuele Giaquin (exg)

2006-03-06 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Slightly late but never the less I'd like to introduce Emanuele Giaquinta (exg) who joined the team a few weeks ago. Emanuele will be working on Gentoo/OSX and ppc stuff when he's not making up weird potions :) Before joining Gentoo Emanuele has contributed to gentoo, rxvt-unicode and oth

[gentoo-dev] New developer: Thomas Cort (tcort)

2006-04-16 Thread kloeri
Hi all. Thomas Cort has recently joined the gentoo team to work on sound and (more importantly) Alpha stuff :) He's been helping the alpha team for quite a while already and doing a great job. Thomas hails from Quebec, Canada and joins the already busy Canadian conspiracy. Give Thomas a warm wel

[gentoo-dev] Three "new" forum staffers

2005-08-06 Thread kloeri
Hi all. It's my pleasure to announce three "new" forums moderators officially joining Gentoo. They've all been forum moderators for a while so I'm sure you all know them quite well by now if you've ever been to the forums. Here's's a short introduction to each of them for those who don't know the

[gentoo-dev] New Developer: Lukasz Damentko

2005-09-08 Thread kloeri
Hi all. It's my pleasure to announce our new polish lead translator Lukasz Damentko (rane). Lukasz was already announced in GWN a while back but here's how Lukasz introduces himself :) "I was born 13th September 1984 in Poland, Warsaw and still live here. My programing and scripting skills rathe

[gentoo-dev] New forum moderators

2005-09-08 Thread kloeri
I've got a couple long-time forums moderators that's joined Gentoo officially. First we have Christian Hartmann (ian!) that's rejoined after a brief hiatus. Christian joined a Gentoo in late 2003 and is now officially part of Gentoo. Mauricio Lima Pilla (pilla) is another long time forums moderat

[gentoo-dev] New developers / polish invasion :)

2005-09-14 Thread kloeri
Hi all. We have two new developers from Poland. Krzysiek Pawlik (nelchael) is going to help with the influx of desktop-misc bugs. I'll let Krzysiek introduce himself: "I want to help maintain my distribution of choice. I've been helping for some time, reporting bugs, posting patches and ebuilds.