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On 11:12 Sun 08 Jun , Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> looks like every nominee wants the council to be more technical so I |
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> have a few technical questions for you: |
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> 1. GLEP54 |
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> 2. GLEP55 |
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I don't have any particular objections to these, besides the vague |
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aesthetic one of having EAPI in the filename. Particularly long, weird |
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EAPIs filled with special characters (to which some will reply "So don't |
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do that"). |
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It would be pretty cool to be able to sync a portage tree excluding |
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ebuilds of any unsupported EAPI, though. |
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> 3. Most wanted changes in future EAPIs |
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USE deps (in portage as of $recent, so we might be able to do this soon) |
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Anything that's gotten to the point where people hack around it to use |
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it in the tree is clearly something that should become part of an EAPI, |
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a la built_with_use(). That's one kind of action that shows something is |
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a feature we really need. |
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Some features I'd like to see in general use that may not require new |
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EAPIs: |
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-New eclasses and elibs (GLEP 33) |
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-Clean multilib support (PM treating ABI to allow multiples of the |
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same PVR) |
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-USE flag groups (GLEP 29) that don't suck like USE_EXPAND |
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-Signing everything (eclasses and all) |
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-GLEP 42 (news reporting) finally getting used |
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Other things I'd like to see: |
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-A hosting site for all of our patches. This would enable better |
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collaboration with other distros and upstream. |
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-More unit tests, building on the ones I posted to -dev recently. |
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-A real tinderbox server doing continuous integration tests that |
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people can check at any time and that will do the blame game and |
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email people who broke something. |
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-Someone to finish creandus (pioto's user creation thingy) |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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