Josh Saddler

Here we are, on the cusp of a new year. Diego, I hope you don't have a fetish, but I've got your back, nonetheless. I started Englishifying your autoepatch docs, after Robin graciously allowed me SVN access.

Anyway, as evidenced by the commit archives, I've managed to keep myself busy on the regular documentation front, while occasionally finding the time to lend a helping doc hand to other projects. Actually, I notice that some commit messages are missing, thanks to CIA being down for several days, and a hiccup or two from the Gentoo mailserver at one point. Ah, well, at least the changes themselves went through.

The other day I had a lot of fun with the guys 'n' gals on #-dev. There might have been much drunk Norwegianisms and lack of pants. And nipple-rubbing. And frozen t-shirt contests (I think I won). An awesome bunch of folks to hang out with. You know who you are.

To do next year, in addition to my normal GDP duties:

1) Soonest: Finish up Dmitry's VDR Guide updates -- Englishification (love that word), layout, etc. Also, finish the autoepatch doc cleanups.
2) Short-term: Poke some more at my other assigned bugs. Need to finish up brix's draft pcmciautils migration guide. I sent him my patch some time ago, but he hasn't responded yet. I've been in contact with him about it for some time since his retirement, but I guess that'll have to wait awhile longer.
3) Long-term: finish writing my uber-sekrit (hahaha) ebuilds for a bit of software released awhile ago. Of course, now I'm all depressed because I found out that not long after I started (which was the day it was released), there was another parallel effort by some other folks, bleah...still, it's a learning experience nonetheless.
4) Longer-term: Finish up that ebuild quiz and send the thing off to tsunam. I really owe him some x86 help, and I'd like to find additional time to help out with the mobile herd. Ooh, maybe amd64 as well, now that I have the proper hardware.
5) Longest-term: continue adding to SwifT's old handbook rewrites in draft/ -- there are some good, solid ideas in there, as well as a whole lot of work to be done, some of it in areas that don't fall under my technical expertise, so others'll have to give that a shot. However, I don't want to have that suck up time unnecessarily, so it'll be an intermittent side project. Speaking of which: might have to see about kbase; it's basically dead, as confirmed by the lack of response to my email inquiries on its lists. It was a good idea, but really brought about too soon for Gentoo's current state. Seems that more development effort should be spent elsewhere, and at this time I am inclined to agree.

There are probably more things I've been intending to finish, but for now these five will do.

Happy New Year to all (especially those who need it most!) in 2007!