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This page collects all calls for recruitment that can be found on the Gentoo project pages. To add a new entry see the Staffing Need form.
This page does not list the only areas where contributions are welcome, but is only a reflection of where developers are needed the most. If you are interested in helping out in another area, then do not hesitate to contact the relevant development group!
If you are interested in helping out with any of the following tasks, please contact the Gentoo Recruiters, CCing the displayed "Contact" on your application.
| Position title | Description | Requirements | Contact | Urgency | Difficulty | Details |
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| The Chinese/Japanese/Korean support packages project need help!
We are searching a person that want to learn maintain Gentoo packages |
Passion, want to be more involved in Gentoo, use CJK packages, some bash knowledge is preferred. | cjk@gentoo.org | 5 | ▂▃▄
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CJK maintainer |
| We have ambitious plans to start maintaining more chromium-related packages like V8. We could also create some Gentoo-specific documentation for people who would like to contribute to or hack on the upstream project. To complete those tasks, we may need more manpower. | Being a Gentoo developer who wants to join the project. Moderate knowledge of upstream project. Being a committer of the upstream project would be a huge plus. | chromium@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Chromium Developer |
| Chromium in Gentoo project needs more people testing packages. We are not always able to reproduce reported issues, and having more people respond to testing requests would be useful. No quiz is necessary to start. | If you are running Chromium or working with V8, and are willing to spend some time helping Gentoo, feel free to apply. | chromium@gentoo.org | 1 | ▂▃▄
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Chromium Herd Tester |
| Want to help maintaining the packages related to cinnamon? We want your help! | Using cinnamon and interested in maintaining the ebuilds and following upstream development of the project. | cinnamon@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Cinnamon maintainer |
| Our project is understaffed. We really need new package maintainers. | Experience with Electronics software on Linux, ideally Gentoo. | sci-electronics@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Electronics package maintainer |
| Maintain the kernel ebuilds for mobile devices. | Experience with kernel and embedded systems | heroxbd@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Embedded Kernel Hacker |
| Helping with the coordination of security bugs and GLSAs. More information to get in touch can be found on the Security Project page and in the linked ressouces. | Strong interest in security matters and good knowledge of written English. A professional security background is not required at all. | security@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃
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GLSA Coordinators |
| Gentoo-keys is a management application to handle all aspects of gpg key handling and verification within the gentoo environment. | Good python skills and or gpg key creation, verification knowledge | gkeys@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Members, Developers |
| Our project is understaffed. We are constantly looking for users and developers to help us maintaining Gnome | Candidates must be familiar with Bugzilla and Gentoo tree structure. | gnome@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Gnome |
| The Gentoo MATE Project is looking for users to test new MATE versions before they are released to the public. | Running MATE, familiarity with Bugzilla, preferably with editbugs permissions on Bugzilla, preferably with an IRC account for communication purposes. | mate@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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MATE Desktop Tester |
| The Gentoo MATE Project has an extreme lack of manpower and is looking for Gentoo developers to join up to participate in generating ebuilds, testing an updated desktop environment, and resolving bugs. | Gentoo developer in good standing, ebuild experience, preferably running MATE | mate@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Mate Team Member |
| Help the math herd to not let rot the ebuilds, add new exciting math software to Gentoo and avoid us to maintain current applications in a blind mode (software we are not users of). | Knowledge of math software and/or Gentoo. | sci-mathematics@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Math package maintainer |
| Maintainer of packages extending PHP. Includes basic revision bumping, adding new packages and maintain related eclasses. | Experience with PHP on Gentoo. | php-bugs@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Maintainer of PEAR/PECL packages |
| To help in Portage's development, bug fixing, testing. | Good python and/or bash skills. Either prior knowledge of portage's internals or the desire to learn more detail about package management and its coding.
The desire to continue to improve the quality of its code. |
dev-portage@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Developer |
| We need more developers acting as proxy-maintainers for users. | Free time
Familiar with Gentoo development affairs and QA tools Good social and community skills |
proxy-maint@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Proxy Maintainer |
| Ruby core package maintainer to help out with the core ruby packages (dev-lang/ruby and dev-ruby/rubygems). Revision bumping, handling security bugs, patching packages to play nice with Gentoo, following upstream to handle changes and updates in a timely manner. | Experience with ruby on Linux, ideally Gentoo. Knowledge of C and ruby. Experience with patching software. | ruby@gentoo.org | 4 | ▂▃
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Ruby core package maintainer |
| General ruby package maintainer to help out managing packages in the herd. Revision bumping, bug filing/fixing, updating ebuilds per eclass or syntax changes, etc. This involves a mix of gem and source based ebuilds. | Experience with ruby on Linux, ideally Gentoo. Knowledge of the gem repository system and its supporting software and experience with building ruby software using setup.rb and its many incarnations. | ruby@gentoo.org | 2 | ▂▃▄▅
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Ruby package maintainer |
Infra is currently running at least two major services using Ruby stack with ElasticSearch: archives.g.o (with sinatra) and packages.g.o (with rails). However, we no longer have any members fluent with either of that, and the services need proper maintenance including:
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Either good knowledge of or willingness to learn (without much help on our end):
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infrastructure@gentoo.org | 5 | ▂▃▄▅
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Ruby / ElasticSearch hacker |
| The samba team is rather non-functional and currently relies on one maintainer who wishes to no longer maintain samba packages anymore. | Very good knowledge of the WAF build system (python) as well as good knowledge of the samba environment. Basic ebuild knowledge is a fundamental requirement. Good contacts to upstream would be nice to have. | samba@gentoo.org | 5 | ▂▃▄▅
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Samba Maintaner(s) |
| Maintain core numerical libraries for Gentoo, perform benchmarks, write useful documentation, write test framework, be part of any Gentoo Science projects | Knowledge of numerical libraries, building and packaging skills | sci@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Scientific Developer |
| Our project is understaffed. We are constantly looking for users and developers to assist us in identifying broken and unmaintained packages in the Gentoo tree. | Candidates must be familiar with Bugzilla and Gentoo tree structure. Experience with portage tools (equery, etc.) is also a plus. | treecleaner@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Treecleaner |
| Develop a solution of Wayland based on Android graphic drivers based on libhybris, preferrably sharing framebuffer with Android. | Familiar with Gentoo Prefix (and its RAP variant), and Android. Familiar with X11 and Wayland. Experience with C. | heroxbd@gentoo.org | 3 | ▂▃▄
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Android Developer |
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