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Note: this doc can be found on the web at the following URLs... |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20060621.xml (HTML) |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/status-20060621.txt (plain text) |
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Gentoo/Alpha Status Report |
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1. Status Reports |
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Preliminaries |
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This is the status of the Gentoo/Alpha porting team. It will be posted |
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regularly, but not with a static frequency. All questions can be posted |
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to gentoo-alpha@g.o. The Gentoo/Alpha porting team, has its own |
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project page (just like almost all other Gentoo projects). You can find |
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it at http://alpha.gentoo.org/. Also you can contact us via IRC at |
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#gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net. The latest status report can always |
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be found on the Gentoo Linux Alpha Status Reports[1] subproject page. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/status/index.xml |
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Index |
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This status report will briefly discuss the following tasks, objectives, |
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and/or projects related to the Gentoo/Alpha porting team: |
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* New Developers |
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* Keywording and Stabilization |
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* Firefox and Thunderbird are Broken |
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* Documentation Project |
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* Alpha Arch Testers Project |
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* New Alpha project page |
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* Donations |
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* 2.6 SMP Kernels |
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2. Content |
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New Developers |
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Since the last status report, the following developers have joined the |
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Gentoo/Alpha porting project: |
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* Christel Dahlskjaer (christel) |
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Christel joined the Gentoo/Alpha porting team recently to help |
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with testing kernels on SMP hardware. |
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* Thomas Cort (tcort) |
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Thomas joined the Gentoo/Alpha porting team in early April to help |
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with bug fixing, keywording, documentation, and security bugs. |
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* Chris Gianelloni (wolf31o2) |
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Chris joined the Gentoo/Alpha porting team recently to help with |
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testing kernels on SMP hardware. |
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Keywording and Stabilization |
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Stephen Bennett (spb) has continued his work with SELinux on alpha. |
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hardened-sources is now keyworded for alpha. Thanks to the work of |
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Stefaan De Roeck (stefaan) and others, modular X has been keyworded and |
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is working well on alpha. The Alpha arch team is also pleased to |
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announce that we have stabilized gnome-2.12.3 and kde-3.5.2 since the |
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last status report. |
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Firefox and Thunderbird are Broken |
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The mozilla project[2] has chosen to discontinue the development of the |
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1.0.x versions of firefox and thunderbird. Since that decision, multiple |
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security holes have been uncovered. As a result, we had to mask the |
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1.0.x versions of firefox and thunderbird to keep our users secure since |
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there are no plans to fix the security holes. |
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No one on the Gentoo/Alpha team has been successful at getting the 1.5.x |
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versions of firefox and thunderbird to run correctly, see Bug #113944 |
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and Bug #131359. If you can help get these packages working on alpha, it |
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would be very much appreciated. |
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[2] http://mozilla.org/ |
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[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/113944 |
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[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/113944 |
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Documentation Project |
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The documentation subproject has written multiple new documents: |
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* The Gentoo/Alpha FAQ[5] - an FAQ intended to answer some of the |
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most frequently asked questions relating to Gentoo/Alpha and |
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Linux/Alpha in general. |
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* Alpha Porting Guide[6] - a guide intended to show C programmers |
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how to port programs written on other architectures to the Alpha |
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architecture. |
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Thomas Cort (tcort) has begun work on an SRM console guide. It will be |
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published in the documentation subproject[7] section of the Gentoo/Alpha |
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project page. |
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[5] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-alpha-faq.xml |
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[6] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/doc/alpha-porting-guide.xml |
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[7] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/doc/index.xml |
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Alpha Arch Testers Project |
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The Alpha Arch Testers Project was recently created by Fernando J. |
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Pereda (ferdy). The project is meant to help the Alpha Arch Team provide |
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a stable, secure and up to date Gentoo Linux port by allowing users to |
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participate in the testing and stabilization process. If you want to |
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learn more about this excellent opportunity to give back to Gentoo, |
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please check out the Alpha Arch Testers Project Page[8]. |
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[8] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/alpha/AT/index.xml |
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New Alpha Project Page |
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Our project page was significantly revamped by Jose Luis Rivero |
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(yoswink) and Fernando J. Pereda (ferdy) with the help of the rest of |
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the Gentoo/Alpha team. The developer list has been refreshed to reflect |
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the current team membership. We now have information about our |
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subprojects too. Most subprojects now have their own project pages. |
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* Gentoo/Alpha Project Page[9] |
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[9] http://alpha.gentoo.org |
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Donations |
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Hardware donations are always welcome. We will gladly accept spare alpha |
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hardware. Even an old AlphaServer 1000 is useful for testing |
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installation media and kernels. More powerful systems could be used to |
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assist in testing packages, to provide developers with access to alpha |
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hardware to port applications, or to assist in building releases. Alpha |
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computers aren't the only hardware that we could benifit from; a SCSI or |
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IDE DVD burner would allow us to test dvdrtools, PCI 802.11 NICs would |
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allow us to do more extensive testing and unmask the wifi USE flag |
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(currently only 1 dev has an alpha with wireless), PDAs would allow us |
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to test PDA applications and unmask the pda USE flag. If you would like |
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to make a donation, please drop by #gentoo-alpha on irc.freenode.net or |
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send an e-mail to alpha@g.o. |
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2.6 SMP Kernels |
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The Linux kernel developers have been working hard on the Alpha port. |
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SMP is functional again and has been tested by a number of developers |
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and users in #gentoo-alpha. 2.6.15.1 and 2.6.16.19 have both been tested |
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on SMP hardware with good results. |