My first real OSS contribution

I'm pretty stoked about this. There is a project at clewn.sourceforge.net which allows your favorite text editor, vim of course, integrate with gdb. I've been using gdb allot by hand, because eclipse is slow and everything else doesn't cut it. So I decided this weekend I'd whip up an ebuild to do this. After all, if I have it installed, I may as well get Gentoo to manage it for me. So this morning I merrily went about ebuild creation until 11 or so I had something going and I put it on bugs.gentoo.org like a good little user. Now, I noticed it got moved to maintainer-wanted or maintainer-needed which bugged me that it would sit out there forever and not get into portage. So I dropped into IRC and asked and got pointed into the http://www.gentoo-sunrise.org project which aims at making a section of portage maintained by people like me and reviewed by developers. So the ebuild got a good scrubbing by a dev and someone else, maybe another dev, and it's now sitting in the sunrise overlay as well. Anyways, if Clewn makes it into portage great, but on Monday I can do a quick ebuild, gloat to the other gentoo guy at work, and maybe go on to do a bit more ebuild improvements in the future. Fun, fun.

Oh, and my father in-law crashed his plane too ;(. And neither of us have fixed our planes, but I may get to mine soon. Then again, if history proves itself, it may still take awhile.