Re: Questions about helping the infrastructure team

Vít Smolík <[email protected]> writes:

> Originally sent to [email protected].

Did get your email (spotted it last night) but didn't have a chance yet
to reply.

>
> Hello,
> I'm writing to express my interest in contributing and helping the Gentoo Infrastructure team.
>
> I work as an IT administrator, study IT and also run my own homelab, so I have hads-on expirience with netwroking, Linux
> systems and server management. I also help the Fedora Infrastructure team, so I have a general idea of how opensource
> projects are run.
>
> I'm comfortable with containerization, virtualization, automation, little bit of LDAP and other general sysadmin stuff,
> but I'd be happy to learn something new.
>
> Is there any proccess for newcomers? Any way to get a feel for the ongoing work?
>

It's a hard area for non-developers to help with, but that said, laumann
did a lot of work recently (and has been continuing to help) with the
various tooling around the Codeberg migration, PR automation, and so on.

It depends on exactly what sort you're interested in, I suppose. For
example, working on tooling in Catalyst to test an image would perhaps
be a bit of infra and a bit not.

> Vít Smolík

thanks,
sam

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