Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

W dniu czw, 21.09.2017 o godzinie 23∶33 +0300, użytkownik Mart Raudsepp
napisał:
> 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?
> 

There are two bugs listed in p.mask reason. There's a lot of bugs on
Bugzilla but I don't know which versions they affect.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny