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+Ebuild development quiz
+Revision 1.12 - 19 January 2014
+Answer in whatever length necessary for completeness.
+Review documentation. Consult your mentor if you're unable to locate answers.
+
+*** Organizational structure questions
+
+1.	When is it appropriate to post to the following mailing lists: gentoo-core,
+	gentoo-dev, gentoo-dev-announce, gentoo-project?
+
+docs: gentoo.org
+
+2.	Who should be contacted with complaints about specific developers or
+	projects?
+
+docs: comrel policy
+
+3.	What is the proper method for suggesting a wide-ranging feature or
+	enhancement to Gentoo? Describe the process for getting this feature
+	approved and implemented.
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+4.	What is the purpose of the Gentoo Council?
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+5.	What is the Gentoo Foundation? How does one apply for membership and
+	who are eligible?
+
+docs: gentoo.org
+
+6.	What is the purpose of the Gentoo project structure?
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+7.	Who can start new Gentoo projects and how is it done?
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+8.	What is the purpose of herds?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+9.	What is the devaway system?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+
+*** Ebuild technical/policy questions
+
+1.	You change a package's ebuild to install an init script. Previously,
+	the package had no init script at all.
+	Is a revision bump necessary? Why? What about when adding a patch?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+2.	A user submits a "live" VCS (git, svn ...) ebuild. What would be a preferable
+	alternative to such an ebuild?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+3.	(a) What is repoman? How would you check for QA problems with
+	repoman?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+	(b) A user submits a brand-new ebuild for a new package. What are the
+	proper steps (including repoman/cvs commands) to take to add
+	this ebuild to the tree?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+4.	A user submits an ebuild that has numerous technical problems and
+	violates policy. How would you handle that situation?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+5.	You have a set of new ebuilds that could potentially benefit
+	from a global USE flag. What steps should be taken before
+	a new USE flag is implemented? What should be done if the
+	USE flag only applies to a single package?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+6.	What steps are needed to remove a use flag from IUSE in an ebuild?
+
+docs:
+
+7.	You're creating an ebuild. Unfortunately, the ebuild's 'make install'
+	target causes numerous access violations. What is the best
+	course of action to take to have a clean, straightforward
+	ebuild?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+8.	You're creating an ebuild that needs a patch. The patch is
+	nontrivially large - bigger than 20kbytes. Where should
+	the patch be kept?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+9.	You're creating an ebuild that has its own license - one that
+	doesn't exist in /usr/portage/licenses/. What is the proper
+	course of action?
+
+docs: GLEPs, devmanual
+
+10.	(a) You wish to have an ebuild marked "stable," taking it out of
+	~ARCH KEYWORDS. It's a library. What steps should be taken to do so?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+	(b) You wish to mark an ebuild "testing," putting it into ~ARCH
+	KEYWORDS. It was previously hard-masked in package.mask.
+	What should be done prior to doing so?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+	(c) You wish to have an ebuild marked "stable." It is a popular
+	application, but no other ebuilds depend on it.
+	What should be done first?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+11.	You're committing a user-submitted ebuild. What should be in the
+	initial ChangeLog?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+12.	What is the difference between DEPEND and RDEPEND?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+13.	You wish to make a change to an ebuild, but you checked
+	ChangeLogs and metadata.xml and it appears to be maintained by
+	someone else. How should you proceed?
+
+docs:
+
+14.	You find a situation in which an eclass may be useful. What should
+	you do before implementing such an eclass?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+15.	How can you verify an ebuild has correct run time dependencies
+	(RDEPEND) for all installed binaries?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+16.	How do you deal with a situation in which an ebuild wishes to
+	install a file already installed by another package?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+17.	Most configure scripts attempt to automatically determine
+	settings based on the host system. When should the ebuild
+	specifically override settings?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+18.	What is EAPI?
+
+docs: devmanual, PMS
+
+19.	What is the procedure for removing packages from the tree?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+20.	How do keywording policies for less often used arches like ia64 or
+	mips differ from the more common ones like amd64?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+21.	You are adding a new major version to the tree that requires users to
+	follow an upgrade guide. How will you communicate this to the users?
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+*** Please also submit the following information:
+
+*	GPG public key ID (if you do not have one, please create one)
+	You should sign your quizzes with your key
+	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml
+
+*	SSH public key (if you do not have one, please create one)
+	http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/cvs-sshkeys.xml
+	If you don't paste your key inline, make sure it's signed by your
+	gpg key.
+
+*	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... This information will be used
+	for your public new developer announcement so please mention if
+	something should not be part of that.
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+Ebuild development (end of mentoring) quiz
+Revision 1.4.3 - 26 Aug 2013
+Answer in whatever length necessary for completeness.
+Review documentation. Consult your mentor if you're unable to locate answers.
+This quiz is based largely on ciaranm's bash quiz -- much thanks to 
+him for the original and for extensive helpful feedback.
+
+1. You are writing an ebuild for the foomatic package. Upstream calls 
+	the current version "1.3-7b" (but this is _not_ a beta release).
+	How would the ebuild be named? What's wrong with the ebuild
+	snippet below and how should this be written to aid
+	maintainability?
+
+  SRC_URI="http://foomatic.example.com/download/foomatic-1.3-7b.tar.bz2"
+  S=${WORKDIR}/foomatic-1.3-7b
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+2. You have a patch for foomatic which adds SSL support that is optional
+   at build time. Assuming that foomatic uses an autotools based build system
+   provide most probable changes required in an EAPI="0" ebuild. What should
+   be done for the ebuild in case it uses EAPI="5"?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+3. What's the difference between local and global scope in an ebuild?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+4. Why should an external application (for example sed/grep) not be
+	called in global scope? What alternative methods can be used?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+5. What is wrong with using $(somecommand) or `somecommand` or $ARCH
+	inside SRC_URI, DEPEND, etc?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+6. Explain what's incorrect about the following code snippets and suggest
+	an alternative.
+
+6.a
+  # This ebuild doesn't like the -mcpu=ultrasparc CFLAG, so drop to v9
+  CFLAGS=${CFLAGS/-mcpu=ultrasparc/-mcpu=v9}
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+6.b
+  # Upstream don't support user-specified CFLAGS
+  unset CFLAGS
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+6.c
+  # Extra settings for when SSL is enabled
+  if [ "`use ssl `" ] ; then
+	# blah
+  fi
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+6.d
+  # Extra options for configure
+  use jpeg && myconf="--enable-jpeg" \
+	|| myconf="--disable-jpeg"
+  use png && myconf="${myconf} --enable-png" \
+	|| myconf="${myconf} --disable-png"
+  use gif && myconf="${myconf} --enable-gif89a" \
+	|| myconf="${myconf} --disable-gif89a"
+  econf ${myconf}
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+6.e
+  # If we USE foo, we need to DEPEND upon libfoo. Unfortunately
+  # foo is completely broken on some archs
+  DEPEND="!x86? ( !amd64? ( !ppc? ( foo? ( >=dev-libs/libfoo-1.2 ) ) ) )"
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+6.f
+  # If USE=fnord is enabled, make extra targets:
+  use fnord && ( emake fnordification || die "it broke" )
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+7. Explain briefly the purpose of the following tools:
+	grep, cut, sed, cat, wc, awk
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+8. Why are 'head -5' and 'tail -5' bad? What should be used instead?
+
+docs:
+
+9. You're writing an ebuild and init script for a server application 
+	that needs networking to be available when started and can also
+	use a system logger if one is available. How should this be
+	written in the init script?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+10. What is the 'Gentoo Way' of allowing the user to pass other options
+	to the previously mentioned server application?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+11. What is the 'Gentoo Way' of globally setting environment variables
+	for all users?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+12. What directory should be used for application-generated 
+	non-temporary data?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+13. Which directory should manual (man) pages be in and how should they 
+	be installed from an ebuild?
+
+docs: handbook
+
+14. On Gentoo Linux systems, what is the purpose of /usr/local/bin?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+15. When should you use || die "msg" with commands/functions?
+    Could || die always be moved inside those functions/commands?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+16. You are committing a new package to the tree. What will you have in 
+	the KEYWORDS variable?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+17. You are bumping foomatic's ebuild from version 1.2 to version 
+	1.3. The new release contains bugfixes and new
+	functionality. The current KEYWORDS for 1.2 are
+	"x86 sparc ~mips amd64" -- what will KEYWORDS be for
+	the new 1.3 ebuild?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+18. You are bumping foomatic's ebuild from version 1.3 to 1.4. The
+	new release extends functionality and introduces a new
+	dependency on libfnord version 1.2 or later. The
+	KEYWORDS for foomatic-1.3 are "x86 sparc ~mips amd64"
+	and the KEYWORDS for libfnord-1.2 are "x86 ~sparc" --
+	what will you do?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+19. You are bumping foomatic's ebuild from version 1.4 to 1.5. This
+	release introduces new optional support for the libgerbil
+	library, which you are controlling via the gerbil global
+	USE flag. Unfortunately libgerbil is full of code which
+	doesn't work properly on big endian systems, and so has
+	"-sparc -mips" in the KEYWORDS. How will you handle this?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+20. You are bumping foomatic's ebuild from version 1.5 to version
+	2.0. This new version is a massive rewrite which introduces
+	huge changes to the build system, the required libraries
+	and how the code works. What will you do for KEYWORDS here?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+21. Your package only builds with newer gcc (e.g. >gcc-4.7).
+	How do you ensure that the user uses an appropriate compiler to build the 
+	package? Under which circumstances should you avoid this check and how?
+
+docs: devmanual
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+Non-ebuild staff quiz
+Revision 1.10 - 25 Spetember 2013
+Answer in whatever length necessary for completeness.
+Review documentation. Consult your mentor if you're unable to locate answers.
+
+*** Organizational structure & policy questions
+
+1. When is it appropriate to post to the following mailing lists: gentoo-core,
+	gentoo-dev, gentoo-dev-announce, gentoo-project?
+
+docs: gentoo.org
+
+2. Who should be contacted with complaints about specific developers or
+	projects?
+
+docs: comrel policy
+
+3. What is the proper method for suggesting a wide-ranging feature or
+	enhancement to Gentoo? Describe the process for getting this feature
+   approved and implemented.
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+4. What is the purpose of the Gentoo Council?
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+5. What is the Gentoo Foundation? How does one apply for membership and
+   who are eligible?
+
+docs: gentoo.org
+
+6. What is the purpose of the Gentoo project structure?
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+7. Who can start new Gentoo projects and how is it done?
+
+docs: GLEPs
+
+8. What is the purpose of herds?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+9. What is the purpose of ~ARCH?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+10. Does a Gentoo user need to be aware of EAPI (justify)?
+
+docs:
+
+11. When should package.mask be used?
+
+docs: devmanual
+
+12. What is the devaway system?
+
+docs: developer handbook
+
+*** Please also submit the following information:
+
+* GPG public key ID (if you do not have one, please create one)
+  You should sign your quizzes with your key
+  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml
+
+* SSH public key (if you do not have one, please create one)
+  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/cvs-sshkeys.xml
+
+* 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... This information will be used
+  for your public new developer announcement so please mention if
+  something should not be part of that.