Josh Saddler

New revision of night-sources now available. It adds a few tiny patches I wrote to allow you to optionally select a nifty Gentoo bootup logo, instead of Tux the penguin. A bit of branding to brighten your boot. Thanks to phreak for helping me with a few variable and eclass questions, as well as jakub for the src_unpack mojo (rather than src_install).

In other news, I've started to work on two new documents. The first is a framebuffer/fbsplash howto, which I'll be coordinating with spock. He expressed interest to me in getting something like this done, and I reciprocated. It certainly is something Gentoo could use an official document on; we only have a few hints scattered around the handbooks and on spock's devspace for working with framebuffers and splashutils.

The second is a document for the GDP: a guide on how to go about updating the handbooks and related docs for release. I figure this will be handy if I'm ever not around to do the updates for the new Gentoo releases. We really do need a "process document" with guidelines on what to do and when to do it, along with task checklists and other stuff on putting out a complete, polished, perfect release.

The framebuffer/fbsplash doc is still just an outline, while the handbook release doc needs to be sensibly ordered before I GuideXMLify it. I'm excited about both documents, though I think the first will be much harder to write, even though I'm going to try to offload as many of the technical details as I can to spock. No ETA on that doc, but I hope to have the draft GDP doc sent to the gentoo-doc list within a week or so. Fun!