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On Friday, June 21, 2019 6:21:00 AM PDT Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 12:42 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > I propose to have one question per thread spawned by this e-mail to |
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> > keep discussion focused. If you have multiple questions, please |
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> > start multiple threads. If your question was already asked, please |
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> > join a thread. |
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> I'd like to ask all nominees a very simple open question: what have you |
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> done to improve Gentoo in the last year? Please focus on noticeable |
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> achievements and successes, rather than general things like 'I've copied |
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> few hundred ebuilds to newer versions'. |
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Hi, |
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Some notable things I've done last year (and I've been a developer roughly |
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same amount of time) |
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Not sure if those considered achievements, they are for me. |
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- Taken over all jvm/jdk/jre maintenance in gentoo over from chewi (with |
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exception to oracle proprietary variants) |
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It involves, for example, building icedtea tarballs for amd64,arm,arm64,ppc64, |
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ppc64le so users can bootstrap their own from-source jvm. |
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And since cross-compiling jvm is not so great idea I have to do it on native |
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machines as qemu does not always work for that. |
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Also continued chewi's work on openjdk, added openjdk8, different JRE and |
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notably openjfx, which was deemed unpackageable. |
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I'm not involved in any java library/package maintenance, this area is still |
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in a very bad state unfortunately and the modern java toolset is very portage- |
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unfriendly. |
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But at least we still have working icedtea/openjdk for a lot of arches and |
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will soon have full jdk+jfx alternative to oracle-jdk. |
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- taken over zfs maintenance. ebuilds were not in a very good state due to |
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various reasons, now it's much better, updates are in time and bugs are |
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handled. |
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Gentoo always was a first-class distro in ZoL world (thanks to ryao) and it |
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still is. |
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- I've been maintaining a lot of rust related thing lately, not a lot was done |
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in this area but situation is improving and there are plans on adding cross- |
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compilation support to rust and maybe improve situation with crate bundling. |
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- Attended SCALE17x conference, brought some arm devices to attract people to |
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gentoo booth. Next time I'm going to come a bit more prepared as this year our |
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stand was very bare-bones. |
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- I got to mentor someone, we'll increase our headcount soon =) |
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Regards, Georgy. |
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