Rufus, actually made it into the tree after a bit of delay by myself. Hopefully, in 0.7.1 the patches I’ve submitted upstream will be implemented so that I can kill the nice large patch I do currently. I’m still looking into a few of the most common complaints about it, such as the refreshing blinking and downloading only certain files from a multi file torrent.

Its slow because I’ve been watching the Olympics, and trying to help out in other area’s as well. Currently, I’m working with nattfodd on getting a small introduction to latex going for the gentoo documentation project. I’ve actually gotten to really enjoy latex because it reminds me so much of html that I learned many a year ago when I was in jr high/high school. As such its amazingly easy to write in. Not to mention that it has the nice benefit of outputting to postscript or pdf with ease. There are even plugins to make it into a html for you as well. Converting to .doc was a bit more of a pain though. I had to do a .tex->pdf->doc, but it worked eventually. Look forward to that doc eventually.

As a afterthought, I knew that developers do a lot of work to keep gentoo the way it is and improve it slowly and surely. However, until I became one I didn’t realize how much time is spent doing stuff for the project. Quite a few dev’s seem to work two full time jobs, one making actual money for living and then this one for gentoo. While I spend considerably less time then them. I’ve sort of taken it upon myself to try and learn more in the way of programming. This currently is trying to learn C++, once the book I ordered comes hopefully I’ll be able to dive in and actually start to help patching and tracking bugs in C++ programs.

I’m one who will freely admit that I basically am one of those programmers you don’t really want on your team currently, as I’m inexperienced and bound to make more mistakes then write good code. Like say for example, loading emerge.log into memory instead of only a small section I want. I just do need to buckle down and work on learning the various languages I do know now better. A good way to do that is actually sit down and start coding the few things I’ve had floating around in my head for a while. Just need to find my motivation to do them.