Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: your achievements

[Mikle Kolyada]

On 21.06.2019 16:21, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 12:42 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>> I propose to have one question per thread spawned by this e-mail to
>> keep discussion focused. If you have multiple questions, please
>> start multiple threads. If your question was already asked, please
>> join a thread.
>>
> I'd like to ask all nominees a very simple open question: what have you
> done to improve Gentoo in the last year?  Please focus on noticeable
> achievements and successes, rather than general things like 'I've copied
> few hundred ebuilds to newer versions'.
>
briefly about what I consider the most important:

- with new tooling I was able to test packages much faster and bugs
handling time for the most used arches (e.g. amd64) was reduced (can be
seen from the arches statistics provided by dilfridge)

- took over linux-pam and friends maintenance and started full m4
pambase migration (should be ready soon)

- together with dilfridge introduced the official Gentoo RISC-V port
with stable profile.

    Started a real hardware builds (including kernel, looking into
possibility of X.org support as well).

- brought texlive-2019 into the tree (including patches back ports,
eclasses update, etc)

    and also started helping out with general TeX  maintenance.


non-technical:

- helped out with the proctors project launching

- glep48 changes

- revised our developer quizzes which was:

    1. ebuild and end of mentoring quizzes were merged into the
ebuild-maintainer quiz

    2. quizzes were revised (old questions removed, some new ones
written from scratch and added)

    (thanks to Amynka for her patience during patches review)