I had a very moving year with Gentoo. At first I only focussed on the stuff I already had (being vServer / openVZ related stuff), but later on also on suspend2-sources and other stuff I took over back when Hendrik retired.
Sometime this year (I think it was somewhere in the early summer) I joined up with the kernel herd, helped out Daniel while he was moving from London(?) to Boston, took over hardened-sources from John (who’s pretty much away). I had a rough break (you remember, the break that turned out to be my most active time) in October till late November, while fighting with my private life and work.
Somewhen between summer and my break I also managed to get hooked up with recruiters which turned out to be a great experience. I got to know Gentoo’s latest additions (graaff, welp, omp, eroyf …); I’m currently working on getting hyakuhei (Robert Clark that is) ready, and I think he is. Let’s see, once I’m back at my devbox (hah, just talked to my brother in the early afternoon, he’s playing Windowz games on it, probably Star Wars – Empire at War) I’m going to do the last steps before hooking him up.
I also managed to junk my time-table with ipw* related stuff (as I announced earlier this month, ipw2?00 is going away in early January – and no, ipw2?00-firmware is staying in the tree and no this isn’t going to affect kernel-2.4 users as it never was supported nor worked for them), mostly got ipw3945 working (thanks to Jan Kundrát and Hendrik who had the initial idea in his overlay iirc), ieee80211 is still a mess (and is hopefully going away soon as Robin (robbat2) told me today, starting with kernel-2.6.20 the ipw3945 stuff is going to work with the in-kernel ieee80211 stuff).
I also joined the hardened herd (only recently), which I am very thankfully for. Let’s see how the next year turns out.
Happy frackin new year !!!