Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project

[Mart Raudsepp]

Ühel kenal päeval, N, 21.09.2017 kell 21:56, kirjutas Michał Górny:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> TL;DR: I'm looking for new people to resume work on sandbox, and I
> will
> most likely branch it at v2.10 and start keep-alive work on top of
> that.
>
>
> The state of our sandbox is not very well. Gentoo is currently using
> the old v2.10 with local patches. v2.11 is p.masked for a long time
> because of multiple unsolved bugs. The git repository also includes
> v2.12 tag that has not even been packaged for Gentoo. From what I've
> been able to establish, the bugs causing v2.11 mask are still present
> in git head.
>
> To add to this, the only person maintaining the code (vapier) has not
> touched it since March, and AFAIA he's not responding to any contact
> attempts from within Gentoo. Given this and the importance of sandbox
> to
> Gentoo at the moment, I think it's reasonable to presume he's MIA
> and start looking for volunteers to join the effort.
>
> I have already added myself to the project page [1] and I'm going to
> try
> to put some effort into improving the state of things. However, I'm
> not
> really an expert in the high magic used in sandbox. If anyone is
> interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself as well.
>
>
> The above considered, I don't think I'm really going to be able to
> solve
> the problems introduced by v2.11. If nobody has a better idea, I'm
> going
> to branch sandbox at v2.10 and look into backporting whatever's
> feasible
> and resuming development in hotfix mode on top of that.

Do you have a handy list of problems with v2.11?
Perhaps all is well for Gentoo usages after the more ptrace-happy
fallbacking commit (apparently was needed by ChromeOS) is reverted if
ptrace-path problems don't get fixes?


Mart