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Yes, another post about proxy-maintainers[1][2][3]. We already maintain 76 packages (listed below))[4] but we have a lot of work to do as the total number of unmaintained packages is 688 [5]. If you spot a package, listed in the maintainer-needed list[5] that you use regularly, get in touch with us[6] and we will try to help you push your patches to Gentoo portage.

app-admin/conserver app-admin/evtxtools app-admin/stow app-admin/webmin app-admin/xstow app-arch/createrepo app-arch/rar app-crypt/ssh-multiadd app-editors/gummi app-emulation/libguestfs app-forensics/openscap app-forensics/ovaldi app-forensics/yasat app-i18n/enca app-laptop/configure-trackpoint app-misc/hivex app-portage/euscan app-portage/pqlop app-text/notecase-pro app-text/rnv dev-db/firebird dev-db/sqldeveloper dev-libs/jansson dev-libs/libee dev-libs/libestr dev-libs/liblognorm dev-libs/stlsoft dev-libs/ucommon dev-libs/uthash dev-ml/xml-light dev-perl/Data-Hexify dev-perl/Digest-CRC dev-perl/Sys-Virt dev-python/assets dev-python/hglib dev-python/ipaddr dev-python/netaddr dev-python/pybloomfiltermmap dev-python/pykerberos dev-python/python-nss dev-python/wehjit dev-scheme/chicken dev-tex/dvi2tty dev-util/appinventor dev-util/btyacc dev-util/febootstrap games-action/cs2d games-misc/fortune-mod-gentoo-ru media-gfx/converseen media-gfx/dispcalgui media-libs/ccaudio2 media-libs/ffmpegsource media-sound/clementine media-sound/flacon media-sound/gmusicbrowser media-sound/split2flac media-video/aegisub media-video/smplayer2 net-analyzer/w3af net-dns/djbdns net-im/vacuum net-irc/kvirc net-libs/librouteros net-libs/neon net-libs/serf net-misc/cadaver net-misc/logmein-hamachi sys-apps/fakechroot sys-apps/the_silver_searcher sys-libs/ldb www-apache/mod_xsendfile www-apps/sugarcrm www-apps/tt-rss x11-misc/ktsuss x11-themes/tactile x11-themes/tactile3

 

[1]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/08/24/gentoo-proxy-maintainers-project-is-now-live/

[2]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/05/30/picking-up-the-pieces/

[3]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/08/20/orphaned-packages/

[4] pquery –repo gentoo -n –herd proxy-maintainers

[5]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml

[6]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml

About six months ago I ranted about Gentoo and that I wanted to start migrating my boxes to another distro. However, I failed miserably. I only managed to migrate just one box to Arch Linux but the rest of my boxes are far far away so it is not possible to do this process remotely. Or maybe it is,  but it would require a massive amount of time and energy which I currently don’t have. Moreover, I was not able to get my motivation back so I am still around doing some routine tasks (retirements, trivial version bumps, treecleaning etc) as well as some recruitment work. This is actually quite good, cos I get to recruit new people to fill in my void :)

I would also like to apologize for the long standing bugs, but given the fact that most of the herds, who co-maintain my packages, are nearly empty, and I have no fast, reliable and, most importantly, available hardware to do my tests, I can’t do much :). However, I still have a few VirtualBox machines, running on the remote boxes, which help me stay in touch for the time being.

Since one hour ago, Qt-4.8.0 is in Gentoo portage tree. New major release so lots of new (or broken) stuff. The most important feature in this release is the integration of a new eselect module. This module will allow you to set your default graphics engine without the need to recompile Qt (x11-libs/qt-gui to be precise) from scratch. So, provided you have qt-gui-4.8.0 installed, you should be able to use the eselect module as follows:

hwoarang@mystical ~$ eselect qtgraphicssystem list Available Qt Graphics Systems: [1] native [2] opengl [3] raster *

(note: if you have x11-libs/qt-openvg installed, one more option should be available)

Simply select your graphics system of preference, and then logout and login again.

hwoarang@mystical ~$ eselect qtgraphicssystem set 2 Setting opengl as your active Qt Graphics System... done Please logout for changes to take effect.

Thanks to Alex(wired) for the eselect module implementation.
Enjoy ;-)