Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance

[Markos Chandras]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 06:10:49PM -0500, ross smith wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 15:19, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> > > A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date
> > > because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me
> > > out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I
> > > have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time
> > > to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large
> > > package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems
> > > slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack
> > > of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the
> > > maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't
> > > spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else
> > > would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in
> > > bugzilla [1]), that would be swell!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Dirkjan
> > >
> > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039
> > > [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay
> > >
> >
> > Hi Dirkjan,
> >
> > Few of my packages depend on boost therefore I don't want to see this
> > package rotten on the tree. However, I do not have the hardware to
> > perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a
> > significant amount of resources during compilation phase. I will add
> > myself on metadata.xml but I will try to find a couple of users to help
> > me maintain it and become proxy maintainer for them.
> >
> > Thanks for letting us know
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
> > Gentoo Linux Developer
> > Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
> > Key ID: 441AC410
> > Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411  3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410
> >
> I have a couple machines that can build it, and also have an interest in
> boost for some other software I work on.  I'd be happy to help,  just need
> to know what needs to be done.
>
> -Ross

My intention is to start working on boost version bump in my overlay
based on the feedback from bug #320039. If someone wants write access in
my overlay please email me along with
your ssh key so I can compile a list and send it to overlays team to
grant you access. If someone wants to start building the latest version
( ebuild attached on that bug ) feel free to do so and report
problems/fixes/ etc

-- 
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
Key ID: 441AC410
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