Re: [gentoo-powerpc] PowerPC meeting minutes - 05/15/15

[Richo Healey]

On 17/05/15 07:14 -0700, Jack Morgan wrote:
>Team,
>
>The PowerPC developer team had a meeting this week. Here are the
>meeting minutes from our meeting on 05/15/15. Also sending this out to
>gentoo-dev list to get feedback from a wide audience.
>
>
>0) roll call
>jmorgan, blueness, JoseJX were present. rej and lu_zero responded
>after reading backlog.
>
>
>1) Developer status
>
>For those who didn't make the meeting, please check the list of
>developers in the wiki[1]. If you are no longer active on powerpc or
>taking a break, please let us know. If you would like to help out
>either by becoming an Arch Testor (AT) or are a developer who has some
>cycles/hardware to spare, we would appreciate the assistance.
>
>
>2) Status of timberdoodle[2]
>
>Who is "managing" this system?
>--We discovered that several developers have sudo access, blueness
>volunteered to be the point of contact for this resource. He will work
>with infra to update the contact person details in the wiki[2]. If you
>would like a shell account to do keyword testing, let him know.
>
>
>3) keywordreq/stablereq
>
>(a) systemd support
>--No one mentioned they have tested systemd on a live system. Though
>this feature has been keyworded, it is not known if it works of not on
>a live system. I said I would try in a week or so. If you are running
>ppc/ppc64 on systemd, it would be good to know that. I had trouble
>getting it working on sparc for example. I'm told there might not be a
>lot of support for non-Intel based hardware.

Lurking in, and without being able to speak for gentoo specifically, I'm
running systemd on a powermac 11,2 (ppc64 kernel, 32 bit userland) under
Debian sid, and it more or less works, save for some (annoying, but not
unworkable) quirks.
>
>(b) gnome/kde desktop support
>--Based on whether systemd works or not, we will evaluate continuing
>supporting these desktops. I believe systemd is required for gnome for
>example. I'm not sure of the state of kde, need to test it. For now,
>we consider these desktops stable on powerpc and will reevaluate this
>at a future date.
>
>(c) java support
>--The java team is working on getting java stable on both ppc/ppc64.
>Thanks for their effort. We need to be testing, keywording and closing
>any open bugzilla on java to assist in this effort. Please take a look
>at those bugs in bugzilla.
>
>(d) broken install due to yaboot/sys-fs/e2fsprogs bug (527974)
>--A user reported on IRC that they were not able to complete an
>install due to this bug. After some discussion, JoseJX said he would
>look into it. He was able to attach a patch and Spanky (vapier) was
>able to make some adjustments. This patch seems to have fixed the
>problem. JoseJX will continue to work this bug. Once that is done, we
>now need to build new stage3 and possibly an installcd.
>
>(e) overall bugzilla status:
>ppc:        total bugs (114), keywordreq (62), stablereq (11)
>ppc64:    total bugs (104), keywordreq (22), stablereq (51)
>
>Here are our bug count in bugzilla at the time of writing. Thanks to
>everyone who is helping keep our bug count low.
>
>
>4) opens
>--Just a reminder that we have consolidated our mailing lists to a
>single gentoo-powerpc@l.g.o list now. Please join the list
>if you are interested in this arch.
>--We will have a team meeting every few months (once a quarter) to
>sync up on powerpc development work.
>
>
>[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PowerPC
>[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines
>
>thanks,

Thanks for the update!