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From: Magnus Granberg <zorry@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix?
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:41:05
Message-Id: 201004031440.23735.zorry@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo a Phoenix? by Tobias Scherbaum
1 lördag 03 april 2010 12.19.19 skrev Tobias Scherbaum:
2 > > > - hardened-sources are nowadays only available in an experimental
3 > > > overlay, lots of users keep asking what's happening to the
4 > > > hardened-sources on both the -dev but also the -hardened mailinglist.
5 > > > Yeah, we do have people working on hardened stuff, but if people just
6 > > > take what's happening in the portage tree they might think that the
7 > > > hardened stuff they're relying on for their business isn't supported
8 > > > any longer.
9 > >
10 > > With Zorry we just got a new recruit for working on hardened things,
11 > > especially toolchain. It's not as dead as you make it sound ...
12 >
13 > Good to see there's something happening in hardened - but still, the
14 > user outside of Gentoo still only is seeing: "Oh, no hardened-sources
15 > update for nearly a year."
16 >
17 How long did it take for Hardened GCC to move to 4.X? And we are still
18 lacking SSP support in the tree. We have lost almost all dev's in the herd the
19 past years. As for hardened-sources we are working on it but that work has
20 not hit the tree yet and that not a good situation. It will hit the tree soner
21 or later. We work on our free time to and we don't have all the free time in
22 the world to work on it. There is a long todo list. It is very time comsuming
23 work on the toolchain, kernel, docs, bugs, recruit and help users at the same
24 time. As tree dev that do all the work but we have users and some devs that
25 help out too and that we are thankful for ther help. Hopefully we have
26 something on the hardened-sources after next meeting.
27
28 @ Paweł Hajdan, Jr. you could ask in hardened-kernel@g.o what thay need
29 for help or join #gentoo-hardened @ freenode.net
30 And the hardened-sources in the hardened-development overlay have some
31 regreesions that we are working on to fix.
32 Sorry if i bing roude.
33
34 Hardened at gentoo.org
35 Magnus Granberg (Zorry) <zorry@g.o>