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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] I'd like to contribute
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Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] I'd like to contribute |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Feb 2012 10:20:55 +1100 |
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:10:04 +0800
Evgeniy Philippov <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
FTR, I copied your 2nd email in below.
> <egphi> I have strong exp. with asm and many-years exp. with c/c++
> <egphi> also expert many-years exp. with java
> <egphi> including a lot of hardware and drivers exp.
> <egphi> how can i help?
> <egphi> i have a lot of time---not currently employed
> <egphi> and have no strict plans to be employed
> <mtjm> I think such experience would be useful for mipsel, otherwise
> gNS developers use mostly shell or Python
> <egphi> what's mipsel?
> <mtjm> the port to machines with MIPS-like Loongson 2F CPUs
> <egphi> i could learn shell and python too - almost zero exp. now
> <egphi> i have no loongson machine currently. should i buy it? or how?
> <egphi> or what references should i read?
> <mtjm> maybe adapting some packages removed from gNewSense to
> reinclude them could need some C experience
> <mtjm> samgee can answer your questions, he is the main developer of
> the new archive scripts
> <egphi> is it OK to forward this discussion to the dev maillist, so
> that samgee would be able to assign some work? including reading docs
> work.
> <mtjm> it should be OK
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:20:10 +0800
Evgeniy Philippov <address@hidden> wrote:
> Though I'd prefer extending a low-level (asm&hardware) experience
> over extending a high-level exp (e.g. bash/python/.deb). I could
> easily invest in a new home machine if that's relatively affordable.
If we are emailing in IRC logs ;)
< Kamping_Kaiser> egphi: experience with c will probably be useful for
helping free packages. for example
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?34578 where the sha implementation
would need replacing
< Kamping_Kaiser> egphi: in instances like that its worth checking the
debian packages then upstreams latest source to see if its been done
before and you can 'just' backport a replacement file
There are lots of bugs like 34578 - just search 'free' in our
bugtracker to see a list of packages needing to be freed. Most of
should be blacklisted in gNS already, so freeing it would allow it to
re-enter the distro.
The canonical list is [1] (which I've just pulled out of the "How can I
help?" thread [2] which is running in parallel to this :))
[1]
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/metad/annotate/head:/parkes/blacklist.needsclean
[2]
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2012-02/msg00000.html
thanks,
kk
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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS)
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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