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  2. My first 60ish days at Funtoo

    in News and Announcements

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    Hello all and happy 2022!

    So, I've been around for about 60 days now, and I wanted to share some of what I've been doing and some thoughts from Daniel and the development team.

    I've been slowly getting to know the Funtoo ecosystem more and more each day.  From exploring the Funtoo system from a predominantly Gentoo context to combing through JIRA to having voice chats on Discord with some of y'all.

    During our time in Gentoo, Daniel and I interacted with users via:
    IRC, bugzilla, and mailing lists (and btw, the website was generated xml that Daniel had written and designed).  Later on, the forums came along and blogs came along between when Daniel left and when I left.  Since that time, the world has changed a little bit.  IRC has been replaced by Discord and Telegram, bugzilla replaced by JIRA, and not a lot happening on the mailing lists, and Twitter is a new addition (and now the website is another avenue for direct interaction for the Funtoo community.

    Last week I invited everyone in the #general Discord channel to ping me if you'd like to schedule a 1 hour chat with me.  We can talk about anything you like. And now I’m opening that invite up to all of you as well. If you can see this and want to chat, please let me know so that we can schedule some together.   Although..based on the conversations I've already been having, I reckon we'll talk mostly about Gentoo and Funtoo things 🙂1vcDPfaEky5K1G6bEMP47W7lLJ6dH-UTZB515sbC.

    Thank you for your patience with all the JIRA emails lately, that's because I was going through each open ticket one by one, to bring everything up to date, and jump start some that had languished. I took a second pass through the tickets to tag them.  Within a day, community members were using the new tags/labels. Thank y'all for noticing and adopting 🙂

    The goal is for us to start creating a plan for Funtoo development. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll start to communicate about where we’ll be focusing our efforts.  Most importantly, we’ll be focusing extensively on improving the experience for those of you who want to learn how to write ebuilds and autogens and want to share your ebuilds and autogens with the rest of the community.

     

    I’ll provide another update next month,  near the 90-day mark.  Meanwhile, I’d love to chat with y’all..

     

    Please feel free to book a time on my calendar, or get in touch with me via DM on Discord, Telegram or the forums. Every Tuesday and Thursday at 930PM PDT (530AM UTC +1 day) please join us in the Voice channel in Discord, where @sirisis leading an educational series via screenshare. Come learn about making ebuilds, autogen'ing ebuilds, and more.

     

    Looking forward to get to know ayou.

     

    Cheers,

    Seemant


     

  7. Gnome 4 ???

    in General Help

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    Hi @perfmonk! Thank you for your questions.  Funtoo does work best out of the box with Gnome-3.36.  We know it's old 😞 and a lot of us want to see it in the desktop-kit.  You'll be happy to know that we do take PRs.  For Gnome40, we are rather hoping that the community might band together to create autogens for Gnome40.  Do you have any interest in something like that?

     

  12. Current state of funtoo, roadmap and future?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by seemant

    Thank you for your very kind words, Daniel.  It's great to be back working together again.

     

    @zoggI think you brought up some great points, and I appreciate your unfiltered perspective.  I'd love to have a more in depth conversation with you, if you're open to it -- especially on Telegram or Discord or another more real-tme medium?

    @nrcI appreciate your enthusiasm and positivity for Funtoo, and am looking forward to building the community with you and all on these forums (and the other media)

  13. Current state of funtoo, roadmap and future?

    in General Discussion

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    Hi All,

    I'm seemant.  I worked with Daniel on Gentoo a long long time ago, and recently I've using Funtoo and participating in its development a little bit as well.  The roadmap discussion is interesting and this thread has evolved a lot.

    One of the things that I'm, in fact, looking to do within the next couple of months is to create a sort of roadmap for Funtoo.

    Please consider this a request for comments and input:  in which areas would you like to see Funtoo improve and evolve? How can we make Funtoo better for everyone?

     

     

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