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W dniu czw, 21.09.2017 o godzinie 23∶33 +0300, użytkownik Mart Raudsepp |
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> Ühel kenal päeval, N, 21.09.2017 kell 21:56, kirjutas Michał Górny: |
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> > Hi, everyone. |
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> > TL;DR: I'm looking for new people to resume work on sandbox, and I |
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> > will |
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> > most likely branch it at v2.10 and start keep-alive work on top of |
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> > that. |
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> > The state of our sandbox is not very well. Gentoo is currently using |
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> > the old v2.10 with local patches. v2.11 is p.masked for a long time |
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> > because of multiple unsolved bugs. The git repository also includes |
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> > v2.12 tag that has not even been packaged for Gentoo. From what I've |
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> > been able to establish, the bugs causing v2.11 mask are still present |
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> > in git head. |
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> > To add to this, the only person maintaining the code (vapier) has not |
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> > touched it since March, and AFAIA he's not responding to any contact |
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> > attempts from within Gentoo. Given this and the importance of sandbox |
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> > to |
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> > Gentoo at the moment, I think it's reasonable to presume he's MIA |
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> > and start looking for volunteers to join the effort. |
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> > I have already added myself to the project page [1] and I'm going to |
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> > try |
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> > to put some effort into improving the state of things. However, I'm |
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> > not |
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> > really an expert in the high magic used in sandbox. If anyone is |
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> > interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself as well. |
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> > The above considered, I don't think I'm really going to be able to |
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> > solve |
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> > the problems introduced by v2.11. If nobody has a better idea, I'm |
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> > going |
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> > to branch sandbox at v2.10 and look into backporting whatever's |
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> > feasible |
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> > and resuming development in hotfix mode on top of that. |
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> Do you have a handy list of problems with v2.11? |
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> Perhaps all is well for Gentoo usages after the more ptrace-happy |
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> fallbacking commit (apparently was needed by ChromeOS) is reverted if |
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> ptrace-path problems don't get fixes? |
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There are two bugs listed in p.mask reason. There's a lot of bugs on |
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Bugzilla but I don't know which versions they affect. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |