Organizational structure questions ---------------------------------- 1. Who should be contacted with complaints about specific developers or projects? 2. What is the proper method for suggesting a wide-ranging feature or enhancement to Gentoo? 3. What is the purpose of the Gentoo Council? 4. What is the purpose of the Gentoo project structure? 5. What is the purpose of herds? General Alpha Architecture questions ------------------------------------ 1. Does the Alpha run 32-bit code? What kind of ABI do we have? Are the Alpha systems big or little endian? 2. How many bootloaders exist in Alpha? 3. What differences the machines that run each of those bootloaders? 4. Write a set of safe CFLAGS for a 21164A based machine. And explain them. Policy questions ---------------- 1. Explain, in your own words, the current keywording policy. 2. What FEATURES might help you while testing packages? 3. What is required for a package to have the ~alpha keyword? Misc questions -------------- 1. Why should a {svn,cvs}-live ebuild never go to stable? 2. Why are the so called 'nouse flags' dangerous? Final steps - ----------- Note: these are not, strictly speaking, part of the quiz. You can leave answering them for after the questions above have been answered and discussed. * What's your date of birth? * Where do you live (Town/City, Country)? * What are your programming/scripting skills, if applicable? * What other areas are you experienced in? * What other projects have you contributed to, if any? * Tell us about yourself. This doesn't need to be strictly computer-relevant; things like where you're from, hobbies, job, family, interests... * It will make things easier for us if you could send us a list of bugs you reported / helped fixed / commented in http://bugs.gentoo.org.