If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a developer, its that there is never a shortage of things to do. There is however a shortage of time. While its a good thing to keep me busy and out of trouble. It does tend to take away from my ability to do projects that I want to do. Even with the ability to multitask I’m generally doing more then one thing that is related to gentoo and those personal projects get shelved for quite some time.

Things that are on the list include reinstalling my email server..as I killed it in a update once upon a time ago, and never bothered to set it back up. I’ll also probably use it as the main source of collecting all my email and run some kind of spam filter on it as well. Next is snort which worked at one point..but again I killed it somehow and never bothered to try and get it fixed. Something I probably should fix.

Third, I’ve been meaning to play around with squid and just get it setup as something that I want to see how it works and how well it does its job, even with only a few clients. Fourth, is setting up bind which I started but haven’t had time to debug. It will start but the daemon doesn’t actually come up, and I’ve yet to actually see if I can find out why its dying.

I have a hauppauge card somewhere in the house that I should plug into my mini-itx machine and setup mythtv as well. I got the card for that purpose quite a while ago..when it was going to go into the old p3 500 server..and set it aside. In doing so i got all sorts of responsibility with gentoo…and it got knocked down on the list.

After all that, of course I’ll want to set up graphing of all the nice new toys I have to see how they are performing overall. So I would have to create or modify some cacti graphs to give me a nice display of the performance over time. I hear many groans as I mention this.

Finally, I want to start working on getting gcc-4.1 stable on x86 at least. Getting the time for that is a serious laugh though as I can’t seem to find the time to work on any of the stuff I have up above.

So basically if you wonder why most developers are somewhat abrupt with you..this is probably a good consideration of why. I’d guess that most dev’s have a similar list of things to do, be it working on some code or personal projects that will allow them to test a wider range of things. I’m going to go be abrupt with someone to keep up that perception, instead of being the one who’ll sit down as much as I possibly can and have a actual chat with you. Even if you come to me to bump a version of a program I don’t personally maintain. For everyone’s relief, when you want a program version bumped, look in the metadata.xml file that is in the same directory with the ebuilds. Its a simple short file that will tell you who maintains it and the herd that it belongs too. Those are the people who take responsibility for it directly, not the person who’s name is in the header.