I want to get more involved

[fkobi]

Hello all!

My name is Filip Kobierski and this year I got into Gentoo.
I have my holidays now so I'd like to give some of my time back to the FOSS community and I feel like this is a good place to do it.

At first I have decided that I'll help with QA -- since it exists no more errors should appear in the repo, but what about the ones that are already there?
I tried to do that in my PRs and some of them were merged.
I'd like to coordinate my efforts and stop this guerrilla warfare type of work.
I think I'd even like to become a developer (maintainer?)
I will sign up as a proxied maintainer but during the holidays (~2 months) I don't want to assign myself to any package just because I have time to spare and it'll be gone relatively soon.
Long story short, I want to get on my way to being a gentoo regular, so if anyone could mentor me I would be grateful.


Right now I plan to do these things:
1. Go through the repo tree and bump EAPI to 8
2. Go through the repo tree and fix pkgcheck issues with EAPI 8 builds
3. Go through the repo tree and drop old stuff (treecleaning?)

I think it's more of something that I will be doing and not that I will finish doing as the tree is big,
Do we have more pressing problems?

PS. I know this post is kind of chaotic. It's a first for me :D

EDIT: The best way to reach me is by email (fkobi@pm.me).

[pietinger]

fkobi,

first of all, Welcome to our Gentoo forum.

If you read some of the threads here you will surely come across users labeled "developer".

Even if some of our Gentoo developers read here, it might be more appropriate to use the mailing list: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org.

Nevertheless, we are happy to welcome any new user here in the forum who has in-depth Gentoo knowledge and is willing to help other users.

I wish you a lot of success on your way to becoming a Gentoo developer.
_________________
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger