Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

I’ve left Gentoo this evening. I have resigned both as a Trustee, and as a developer, with immediate effect. I wish everyone all the best.

There are great people already in place to pick up most of the projects and packages that I’ve been involved with over the last three and a half years. The NX packages and the Seeds project are the only two major ones where there’s currently no-one in place to hand them to. It’s no longer up to me what will happen to both of these inside Gentoo.

I have taken a full backup of the Seeds project. After a short break to recharge my batteries, I’ll move downstream (so to speak) and continue to develop the LAMP Server seed as an independent project outside of Gentoo.

I’ve stopped downloading email sent to my Gentoo email address. All email sent there will now go unread. If you want to get hold of me, I can be reached via my Gmail account - stuart dot herbert at gmail.com. This blog will disappear from Planet Gentoo soon (as is right and proper), but I’ll continue to post news about the Seeds project on my personal blog after my short break.

I’ve only done very basic testing, but so far I’m not seeing any problems at all with trying to run the Perl components (nxnode, and nxserver) from the 2X Linux Terminal Server as normal, interpreted Perl scripts.

I’m currently working on a patch for the server/nxnode component so that it will create and install nxnode and nxserver as interpreted scripts. Mostly, it’s just a case of stripping out all the steps used for compiling the scripts, and trying to install the dedicated Perl interpreter.

Once that’s done, it’ll be time to fill out the src_install() function of the ebuild … and then we’ll have something we can start testing for real.

… is don’t use SeaMonkey to try and write long blog posts