From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D66B41396D0 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 564D2E0BF3; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 12393E069C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EF2F33C6B6; Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:54:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1506027262.15165.15.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reviving the Sandbox project From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:54:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1506025998.3293.1.camel@gentoo.org> References: <1506023769.15165.14.camel@gentoo.org> <1506025998.3293.1.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.24.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: fbbe83cc-5b66-4b5a-8a9c-a31e03006485 X-Archives-Hash: 84eb7997c67290f2f888e60f49e99b34 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