Hi all, 

for the following arches (and only these)

** GLIBC:
** alpha, arm, ia64, loong, m68k, ppc, ppc64, riscv, s390, sparc, x86

** MUSL:
** riscv

the 23.0 profiles are ready for testing, including stage downloads,
binary packages, and update instructions for existing installations.

IMPORTANT Draft update instructions IMPORTANT
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_update_instructions

Stage downloads (temporarily, for all listed arches):
[preferably] https://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/x86/23.0_stages/
[direct/osu] https://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/x86/23.0_stages/

The changes can be seen here
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_profile_transition

and the timeline so far here
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_profile_timeline

Please try things out, and file bugs if you encounter problems.

In particular, also double-check the documentation - the update
path table was a lot of manual work, and it's not impossible that 
C-C / C-V went wrong somwhere.

The update instructions also double as the news item that should be
published 2 weeks from now on these arches (unless there are 
unexpected problems). I'll reply to this e-mail with a separate 
mail containing the full text, for easier discussion.

Note 1: The next steps are, in 2 weeks:
* make 23.0 profiles the same stability level as 17.x profiles,
* degrade 17.x profiles all to exp (so the CI doesn't explode)
* publish news item
* replace stage downloads with 23.0 version (in situ)

Note 2: Musl is still missing out on *stable* arches, since this
requires musl-1.2.4 stable.

Note 3: The remaining arches follow when they are ready.
Why are they not ready?
 * amd64: comes last :)
 * arm64: bug #916381 still needs to be implemented
 * hppa: slow hardware (one gcc build takes ~1 week)
 * mips: slow qemu emulation (one gcc build takes ~1 day),
     many variants and complex profile structure
 * musl on stable arches: needs musl-1.2.4 stable

Cheers & have fun,
Andreas

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)