[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

[Justin Bronder]

On 02/06/16 10:42 -0500, james wrote:
> On 06/01/2016 06:20 PM, Justin Bronder wrote:
>  > Due to a lack of time and the fact I don't use any of these packages
>  > anymore, they are all up for grabs.
>  >
>  >      - media-gfx/openmesh [no project]
>  >      - sys-cluster/ganglia [cluster]
>  >      - sys-cluster/ganglia-web [cluster]
>  >      - sys-cluster/torque [cluster]
>  >      - sys-cluster/munge [cluster] dependency of sys-cluster/torque
>  >      - sys-cluster/mpe2 [cluster]
>  >
>  > Also, if there's anyone out there using the science overlay and empi
>  > who's feeling motivated, that work still needs a champion to get it
>  > into the main tree.  If not, I'll probably drop it in a few months
>  > and open openmpi and mpich2 to project maintenance as well.  I
>  > haven't been involved in HPC for over a decade now, it's time to
>  > pass the torch.
>
>
> Hello Justin,
>
> I've been working on cluster ebuilds for a while (Apache Mesos, spark,
> etc). I'm willing to proxy maintain these except torque. Assuming there
> are no users of torque on gentoo (bgo seems inactive...it's dead; how
> would I know?).

Looks like Ian got torque already, but he may appreciate some help.  For the
other packages, I'm more then happy to proxy maintain them for you.  Just send
any patches my way (including a first one to add you as a maintainer :)

>
> My focus is building gentoo centric HPC clusters that do not require
> systemd as a component, with deployment emphasis on bare-metal and
> minimized gentoo systems where only the codes absolutely necessary to
> support the necessary frameworks are dynamically installed. Many of the
> 'retro' tools in this cluster space, are quite useful for my work.
>
> The guidexml page for empi is old, so where do I read up on it's
> projected usage (just not familiar with that empi project/package).

The empi documentation did get moved over to the wiki [1].  However, it's pretty
much the exact same thing you're seeing in the guidexml page.  I know there were
some HPC sites using it in the past, but I haven't heard from anyone lately.
That could mean no one is using it, or that everything is working as expected.

1.  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Empi

-- 
Justin Bronder