This page does not list the only areas where contributions are welcome, but is
only a reflection of where developers are needed the most. If you are
interested in helping out in another area, then do not hesitate to contact the
relevant development group anyway.
If you are interested in helping out with any of the following tasks, please
contact the Gentoo Recruiters, CCing
the displayed "Contact" on your application.
| Project |
Job |
Description |
Requirements |
Contacts |
| base — Gentoo SPARC |
Arch team members |
The sparc team could use some more people for software testing, keywording and
release work. ~sparc users, owners of new and or exotic hardware are most
welcome.
|
Access to v9 sparc hardware |
Tiago Cunha |
| Documentation — Internationalisation |
Documentation translators |
Gentoo needs documentation translators. The list of currently official
translators can be found on our internationalisation subproject
page. If your language is not listed, please contact GDP for more information.
|
Translators need good reading skills in English and obviously very good
writing skills in the language they are translating to.
They should also be able to edit UTF-8 encoded XML files (any good text
editor can be used).
|
Xavier Neys |
| Gentoo Programming Resources — Ruby |
General package maintainer |
General ruby package maintainer to help out managing
packages in the herd. Revision bumping, bug
filing/fixing, updating ebuilds per eclass or syntax
changes, etc. This involves a mix of gem and source
based ebuilds.
|
Experience with ruby on Linux, ideally
Gentoo. Knowledge of the gem repository system and its
supporting software and experience with building ruby
software using setup.rb and its many incarnations.
|
ruby@gentoo.org |
| Ruby core package maintainer |
Ruby core package maintainer to help out with the core
ruby packages (dev-lang/ruby and
dev-ruby/rubygems). Revision bumping, handling
security bugs, patching packages to play nice with
Gentoo, following upstream to handle changes and
updates in a timely manner.
|
Experience with ruby on Linux, ideally
Gentoo. Knowledge of C and ruby. Experience with
patching software.
|
ruby@gentoo.org |
| Java |
General package maintainer |
General java package maintainer to help out with managing the herd.
Along with java packages in other herds. Revision bumping, bug
filing/fixing, stabilizing, updating ebuilds per eclass or syntax
changes, etc.
|
Experience with Java on Linux, ideally Gentoo. Building java
applications from source. Some experience with ant, build.xmls,
patching java sources, and package build systems.
|
java@gentoo.org |
| Glassfish package maintainer |
Package from source and maintain
Glassfish
and related packages. Due to the size of Glassfish, many ebuilds will
need to be created for the various pieces. Possibly even a eclass.
Along with maintaining it all for at least 1 year or longer. Which
includes keeping package current with upstream. Glassfish has several
dependenies required to build from source that will also need to be
packaged and maintained as well.
|
6 months - 1 year experience with Glassfish. Ideally in a production
environment running Gentoo or some flavor of Linux. Ability to work
with Glassfish sources, and build it from source.
|
java@gentoo.org |
| JBoss package maintainer |
Package from source and maintain
JBoss
and related packages. Due to the size of JBoss, many ebuilds will
need to be created for the various pieces. Possibly even a eclass.
Along with maintaining it all for at least 1 year or longer. Which
includes keeping package current with upstream. JBoss has several
dependenies required to build from source that will also need to be
packaged and maintained as well.
|
6 months - 1 year experience with JBoss. Ideally in a production
environment running Gentoo or some flavor of Linux. Ability to work
with JBoss sources, and build it from source.
|
java@gentoo.org |
| Tomcat package maintainer |
Maintain
Tomcat
and related packages. Its already packaged and working with a few open
bugs with the effors of William L. Thomson Jr. The volunteer will take
over his work since he will retire soon. Tomcat has several dependenies
required to build from source that will also need to be maintained as well.
|
6 months - 1 year experience with Tomcat. Ideally in a production
environment running Gentoo or some flavor of Linux. Ability to work
with Tomcat sources, and build it from source.
|
java@gentoo.org |
| Jetty package maintainer |
Package from source and maintain
Jetty
and related packages. Along with maintaining it all for at least 1
year or longer. Which includes keeping package current with upstream.
|
6 months - 1 year experience with Jetty. Ideally in a production
environment running Gentoo or some flavor of Linux. Ability to work
with Jetty sources, and build it from source.
|
java@gentoo.org |
| Maven package maintainer and portage integrator |
Package from source and maintain
Maven
and related packages. Maven itself is packaged from source in the
java-overlay, but needs to be updated, maintained, and added to tree.
At which time Maven, along with Maven repositories need to be
integrated with Gentoo's Java build system. Which presently is designed
entirely around ant. Then maintaining it all for at least 1 year or
longer. Which includes keeping package current with upstream. Most
all dependenies required to build from source have been package
in the java-overlay. They will need to be added to tree and maintained
as well.
|
6 months - 1 year experience with Maven on Gentoo or some flavor
of Linux. Ability to work with Maven sources, and build it from source.
Experience with the Gentoo Java build system and our Java specific
eclasses.
|
java@gentoo.org |
| Lisp |
Package maintainers |
Desperately seeking Susan^WErlang.. er, wait. The Scheme, common
lisp herds are understaffed. If you have an interest in helping
them out, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
|
|
Marijn Schouten |
| Perl |
General package maintainer |
General perl package maintainer to help out with managing the herd.
Revision bumping, bug filing/fixing, stabilizing, updating ebuilds per
eclass or syntax changes, etc.
|
Experience with Perl on Linux, ideally Gentoo.
|
perl@gentoo.org |
| Perl core maintainer |
Perl core package maintainer to help out with the core perl packages
(dev-lang/perl and sys-devel/libperl). Revision bumping, handling
security bugs, patching packages to play nice with Gentoo, following
upstream to handle changes and updates in a timely manner.
|
Experience with perl on Linux, ideally Gentoo. Knowledge of C and perl.
Experience with patching software.
|
perl@gentoo.org |
| g-cpan maintainer |
g-cpan is a tool written in perl. It generates ebuilds and installs perl
modules and bundles from CPAN on-the-fly.
The sources are in the g-cpan
repository.
|
Experience in perl and packaging perl modules.
|
perl@gentoo.org |
| security |
GLSA Coordinators |
Helping with the coordination of security bugs and GLSAs. More
information on the recruitment process can be found
further
down on the project page. |
|
security@gentoo.org |
| Kernel Security Coordination |
|
|
security@gentoo.org |
| virtualization — vmware |
Team Member/Team Lead |
A team member or the team lead is needed to package up the closed-source
vmware packages (currently workstation, player and server) for installation
on a Gentoo system. The greatest part of this task is ensuring that the
appropriate kernel modules compile with the latest kernel whilst still maintaining
backwards compatibility with previous kernels.
|
Enthusiasm for challenging positions, knowledge of kernel modules and ability
to work with and around closed-source software. Experience with ebuilds and eclasses
is vital. Also, the current installer requires a good working knowledge of python
and standard unix tools (patch, etc). The legacy installer requires a good working
knowledge of perl.
|
vmware@gentoo.org |
