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Hello, |
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I intend to mark the following profiles stable within a week or so: |
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default/linux/arm64/17.0 |
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default/linux/arm64/17.0/systemd |
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arm64 (AArch64) is becoming a rather major architecture in the computer |
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industry, from small single board computers to very beefy servers. It |
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is about time to grace it with stable Gentoo support. |
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Thanks to access to a 96 cores @ 2.0GHz arm64 server with 128GB RAM it |
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has been easy to finish up fixing our keywording issues and clear up |
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stabilization queue. This access has been kindly provided to Gentoo by |
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packet.net via the Works on Arm initiative. |
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Before proceeding I intend to get the following still done first: |
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* Clear up the stabilization queue (only about 3 actionable bugs still |
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to do at the moment, rest is caught up) |
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* Reduce things that are USE masked (from early keyword issue solving), |
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before higher care needs to be taken for that work with stable |
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profiles; in particular I want to concentrate on test dependencies and |
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some more widely used optional features and their external deps |
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Shortly afterwards: |
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* Spin a new stage3 |
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* Look into moving the stages out of experimental status |
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Later plans: |
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* Support more server software |
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* Introduce ~arm64 GNOME3 support (and stabilize later on); (thanks Ben |
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Kohler, for donating me a DragonBoard 410c a while back, on which I'll |
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be able to test running it) |
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* Start actively taking and handling keywording and stable requests of |
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things people want to use on their Aarch64 hardware |
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* More automated stage tarballs |
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* Become Gentoo Security supported |
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* Overtake amd64 in supported maintained software? |
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The intention is also to follow up with the following profiles soon |
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enough, as we start tracking more desktops as well: |
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default/linux/arm64/17.0/desktop |
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default/linux/arm64/17.0/desktop/system |
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d |
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default/linux/arm64/17.0/developer |
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Still pondering about the default/linux/arm64/17.0/developer profile, |
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given its effect on repoman speed for all, compared to its value to |
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end-users and inflexibility to developers for whom this is meant for. |
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Once GNOME is supported, we'd also make new |
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default/linux/arm64/17.0/desktop/{,systemd} profiles into stable and |
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whatever other profiles that have their relevant packages properly |
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supported in the future (e.g. plasma). |
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Bikeshed now or forever hold your peace. |
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