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From: Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for co-maintainers for number of packages
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 04:56:47
Message-Id: YsUWB25fLcdEZv8j@anduin.perfinion.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Looking for co-maintainers for number of packages by Georgy Yakovlev
1 On Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 09:03:04PM -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
2 > I've been rather busy lately and can't keep up with all of my packages.
3 > There are pending bumps, some bugs, but nothing too crazy or hard. 
4 > So I'm looking for someone to co-maintain (or even take over if you
5 > insist) the following packages:
6 >
7 > * dev-cpp/abseil-cpp
8 > Googleware, it's usually bundled into source, like gnulib, but some
9 > projects use system copy.
10 > Hardcoded flags, broken abi every other bump, may require slotting in
11 > the future, some revdeps rely on older versions. Not hard to maintain,
12 > but has more that usual blast radius.
13
14 I'll take this, I already end up having to apply random patches to make
15 it play well with CUDA.
16 >
17 > * net-libs/grpc
18 > * dev-python/grpcio
19 > * dev-python/grpcio-tools
20 > * dev-python/grpcio-testing
21 > grpc stack, googleware again. rather frequent releases, lack of
22 > portage-able tests, as tests insist on downloading gtest stack git
23 > master in src_test phase.
24 > Technically it's already co-maintained, but I't be beneficial if we
25 > have more hands and eyes on this one.
26 > python project has been helping with python packages, but lack of tests
27 > makes the package somewhat risky.
28 > bonus points if you can test it with tensorflow.
29
30 I'm the co-maintainer on this already but as Georgy said, happy to have
31 other maintainers as well, I dont really interact with it other than via
32 TensorFlow. If people use it as deps from other things that would be
33 great too :)
34
35 -- Jason