From b707536f8dd230b36d2e47a72e7bdc33ef3f4923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andreas K. Hüttel" Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 22:53:20 +0100 Subject: Minor layout adjustments to 2022 new year post MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel --- _posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md | 35 ++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to '_posts') diff --git a/_posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md b/_posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md index 71ccbb3..353df45 100644 --- a/_posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md +++ b/_posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md @@ -42,56 +42,49 @@ The ongoing tinderbox efforts as well as the overall high level of activity seem In the past year 2021 we have gained an outstanding number of **seven new Gentoo developers**, much more than in recent years. In chronological order: -1. **[John Helmert III (ajak)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ajak)** - - +1. **[John Helmert III (ajak)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ajak)**: + John was the first one to [join in February](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/4088d2ee364814127c2bb0f630d51e4d). He's focusing on the never-ending security work, wrangling bugs and issuing GLSAs, but also on developing the internal applications and infrastructure of the security team. We will hopefully have a fresh new GLSAmaker soon! -2. **[Andrew Ammerlaan (andrewammerlaan)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:AndrewAmmerlaan)** - - +2. **[Andrew Ammerlaan (andrewammerlaan)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:AndrewAmmerlaan)**: + Andrew [signed up in May](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/b9c2ec909212fc3c8bc88c4d10949d78) and is well known for working on our scientific software stack (specifically physics and electronics), and also handling user contributions for both the Gentoo repository and the sci overlay. Beyond this he active in the GURU team and also in Python packaging. -3. **[Ionen Wolkens (ionen)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ionen)** - - +3. **[Ionen Wolkens (ionen)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ionen)**: + Ionen [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/158d8d7c0737c9a07ad8537b5b7f55d0) and by now is active in many corners of Gentoo. His specific focus area, however, is games, games, games! In addition, he has also taken over one of our somewhat "special fun" packages, nvidia-drivers, and is the author of [a whole set of development tools](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-portage/iwdevtools) ... -4. **[Florian Schmaus (flow)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Flow)** - - +4. **[Florian Schmaus (flow)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Flow)**: + Also having [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/3806eb498e53f00c9851a0835ef59362), Florian is busy with Java support, co-administrating the GURU overlay, and the proxy maintenance team. In addition he contributes to Erlang packaging - one of the more exotic programming languages present in Gentoo. -5. **[Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Arthurzam)** - - +5. **[Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Arthurzam)**: + Next, [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bdd3eff9c70806cb9748c908306fdcd3), came Arthur. He's contributing a lot to our Python team, keeping the large number of Python packages maintained there up-to-date. In addition, he recently joined several architecture teams, so we can keep offering Gentoo for highly diverse hardware. -6. **[Jakov Smolić (jsmolic)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Jsmolic)** - - +6. **[Jakov Smolić (jsmolic)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Jsmolic)**: + Our second new recruit [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/6b1c3d06be26877d295121a1fca742d0) was Jakov. Master of odd jobs, he's fixing bugs across the gentoo tree, solving QA problems, and also weeding out old packages. Last but not least, he has also joined our recently renewed architecture team efforts. -7. **[Maciej Barć (xgqt)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Xgqt)** - - +7. **[Maciej Barć (xgqt)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Xgqt)**: + Finally, [November](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bff150221efaf417a83271af07ef71c1) brought us Maciej. He's coming from the mathematics corner, and consequently his areas of specialization are scientific and in particular mathematical packages, Scheme, but also, for -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad