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Hello everyone, |
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My name is Pallav Agarwal, and I'm a second year undergraduate at Indian |
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Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. With this email, I would like to |
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introduce myself to the Gentoo community. |
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I have applied to Gentoo project 'Continuous stabilization'. |
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The current process of stabilization of packages in the Gentoo tree is |
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carried out by a team of Gentoo developers, manually and is hence, quite |
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slow. By automating the process of building installing and then testing a |
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package, a large number of packages can be stabilized automatically, |
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significantly reducing the load on the developers doing the manual |
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stabilization. |
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Moreover, since infrastructure is expensive, this computation can also be |
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done in a distributed fashion, running the jobs on computers of volunteers |
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willing to contribute some computation time using a software like BOINC. |
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Once this is done, it should be possible to have stabilization requests |
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resolved in almost no time at all. |
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For users, this would also mean that the latest versions of packages would |
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be made safely available to them much sooner than they are done right now. |
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Also since the packages can be checked for stability for a lot more |
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combination of USE flags and Gentoo profiles than possible manually, the |
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possiblity of a user running into an error after package stabilization |
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would be very low. |
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About Me: |
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I’m a Linux enthusiast; and have a plethora of experience with development |
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in its various manifestations, viz Web, App, Package writing to name a |
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few. I’ve |
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been a long time user of various Linux distros (starting with Ubuntu, I |
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have since used Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, and NixOS). I have been |
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fascinated by Gentoo and Portage, ever since I forced its (Portage’s) |
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installation in a completed Linux From Scratch system just to see if it |
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would work. |
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More information about me, my contributions and the project I wish to |
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contribute to, can be found in the proposal here: |
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-peO_EH1Am8ZchYXhnC5oVpB5e8Vw37JvhM5vOefZ4/edit?usp=sharing |
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Regards, |
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Pallav Agarwal |
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