Helping Sabayon !

[manifesto]

Hi,

I have some freetime and I was guessing if I can help the sabayon team to port ebuild to sabayon (entropy).
I have been playing around with gentoo and getting familiar with.
I would be pleased to have gentoo release packages being ported faster in entropy.
As I could spend some hours a week to do this kind of task I was wondering how difficult it was and if it would be possible to do and/or if sabayon team is interested in part time helper !
I have family and work and so dont have so much time but it may help.

Recently I installed openvas from entropy which is version 2.x, I tried but had many strange behaviour.
I decide to recompile it from source which are 4 or evern 5 for beta.
I saw pentoo overlay having more recent (but still 3.x version), is sabayon team only porting main gentoo overlay ?

I have been as well playing with Arch where new stuffs are ported almost immedialty, it is a very good distro but sabayon is a bit more enjoyable, got more personnality but just need some more regular updates I think.

[wolfden]

We pull from overlays often and even create own ebuilds. How long you been doing gentoo portage stuff? You can write ebuilds? Our dev ML would be a good spot to introduce yourself and capabilities.

There's always work to be done.

[camelinahat]

Wolfden, perhaps you would be the best person to mention this to considering your title (Chief Community Officer). Pertaining to manifesto's request to help the Sabayon Project. I notice there's no real documentation regarding contributing to the project(s), or if there is, it is not easy to locate. I've searched through the forums and wiki and didn't come across anything regarding 'contributing' to Sabayon. The main website indicates 'you don't have to code to contribute to the community' and links to the forum but I've not really seen any resources on what areas folks can contribute to (ie, wiki, development, testing, bugs, documentation, etc etc), nor how to provide contributions.

I'd be interested in seeing a page or wiki-page with information on various ways one could help the project, what resources there may be to aid in creating/providing contributions and what teams or contacts there may be who would receive the contributions or (if exists) could help mentor beginners in contributing.

I would also be willing in helping create such a page on the Wiki for instance if I knew someone whom could provide those details to me if they were not able to devote the time/effort to that themselves. Feel free to drop me a PM if you could provide some basics or direction on this.

Thanks,

--camel in a Hat (Moo)

[manifesto]

Hi,

Actually I was thinking it could be helpful to do some packaging from gentoo to sabayon.
About the ML where can I subscribe to check what is going on and if I can help.

[joost]

Actually I was thinking it could be helpful to do some packaging from gentoo to sabayon.

No need for that.

[Fitzcarraldo]

About the ML where can I subscribe to check what is going on and if I can help.

For the developer ML (Mailing List), click on the link 'Lists' at the top right of the Home Page, then click on the link 'devel'. Then either click on the link 'devel Archives' to view prior postings, or enter your details on that page to subscribe to the developer mailing list.

[wolfden]

Wolfden, perhaps you would be the best person to mention this to considering your title (Chief Community Officer). Pertaining to manifesto's request to help the Sabayon Project. I notice there's no real documentation regarding contributing to the project(s), or if there is, it is not easy to locate. I've searched through the forums and wiki and didn't come across anything regarding 'contributing' to Sabayon. The main website indicates 'you don't have to code to contribute to the community' and links to the forum but I've not really seen any resources on what areas folks can contribute to (ie, wiki, development, testing, bugs, documentation, etc etc), nor how to provide contributions.

I'd be interested in seeing a page or wiki-page with information on various ways one could help the project, what resources there may be to aid in creating/providing contributions and what teams or contacts there may be who would receive the contributions or (if exists) could help mentor beginners in contributing.

I would also be willing in helping create such a page on the Wiki for instance if I knew someone whom could provide those details to me if they were not able to devote the time/effort to that themselves. Feel free to drop me a PM if you could provide some basics or direction on this.

Thanks,

--camel in a Hat (Moo)

Well our documentation department is pretty much what the users want to contribute to Wiki. I myself hate wiki as I find it a pita to format and present things nicely. The hardest part is finding people that want to maintain it.

Translations have been volunteers here and there.

We have the entropy team that handles package requests and bumping, we have a good team working on that area.

Forum and IRC are just volunteers stepping up to the plate to help. Hang around long enough and you see which ones are the daily active ones.

So my best advice is to take initiative and do things and if you need help in areas, find us in #sabayon or #sabayon-dev on irc.freenode.net Don't be afraid to ask questions, dev mailing list is probably best route to get our attentions.