Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly mips@ project status for April 2018

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

W dniu nie, 01.04.2018 o godzinie 20∶40 -0700, użytkownik Matt Turner
napisał:
> I'd like to start giving ~monthly updates on the status of mips@ in
> Gentoo.
> 
> Recently I received a Loongson 3A system (quad-core 1.35GHz, 16GB RAM,
> AMD graphics) which is significantly faster and more stable than any
> other mips system I have.
> 
> mips@ is currently assigned or cc'd on 29 bugs. This number is down from
> probably >50 at the beginning of March.
> 
> My list of to-do items consists of:
> 
> == Switch to stable profiles ==
> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7672
> 
> While keeping mips unstable (KEYWORDS=~mips) I plan to switch the
> profiles from exp to stable so that no new breakage is added.
> 
> To that end, I've been working to test and keyword packages until we can
> flip the switch without adding any breakage ourselves. See the github
> pull request for the current status. I'll periodically rebase the branch
> as I add more keywords to the main tree.

If you're working on this actively, you can flip it from exp to dev
again, to get CI warning-level coverage. We've flipped it to exp since
nobody was really working on it and we wanted to focus on arm64 first
but if you can promise us a continuous decrease in warning count, I see
no problem in marking it dev.

> My plan is to add stable 17.0 mips profiles when the keywording is
> sorted out and kill two birds with one stone.

Does it involve fixing the CHOST inconsistency so that we can finally
get LLVM keyworded?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny