Re: [gentoo-dev] Sparc Arch status

[Jack Morgan <jmorgan@gentoo.org>]

Following up to my email from a year ago....

I've been out for several months and getting back to working on Gentoo.
I'd like to provide an update on sparc status...

On 05/17/15 08:36, Jack Morgan wrote:
> All,
> 
> I wanted to send out an update on the Sparc arch team status. My overall
> plan is to reduce the total number of keywords for sparcto a more
> manageable level. I'd like to continue to have sparc be a stable arch
> for gentoo for as long as it makes sense. I'm hoping to get some
> feedback from the community as to what should be supported and what can
> be reduced.

We do have some people in the community who are interested in sparc. In
fact, we have one kernel developer who would like to get multilib working.

In addition, I have two who are interested in helping by being arch
testers (AT).


> (1) Bugzilla
> At the time of writing, here is the bug count for sparc. There is a good
> amount of keywording to do here and I'll start working on these in a week.
> 
> sparc: total (172), keywordreq (67), stablereq(85)

Current count:

sparc: total (349), keywordreq (76), stablereq(249)

If you are about to drop the last stable keyworded ebuild, please ping
me before hand. I will put it to the top of my queue. This is especially
true if its part of the system.


> (2) Installation (Wiki/Releng)
> The documentation is up to date and accurate. Thanks doc team! I
> recently did a fresh install so the current iso and stage3 work well.
> The stage3 need to be updated because they include perl-18 instead of
> perl-20. Otherwise, the install process is stable on my system.

We really need an updated ISO and stage tarballs.

> (3) Infra
> There is one developer machine[1] to use for keyword testing. Please
> request access from the contact in you would like a shell account.

We still have a system for all to use.

> (4) Profiles
> 
> (a) systemd support
> I tried for several days to get systemd working on sparc. systemd just
> seg faulted on boot up. In fact, I had trouble getting udev to start. It
> just produced an error "ignoring: Invalid argument error initializing
> netlink socket" and didn't start. Since udev didn't start, i was not
> able to log in nor ssh (no network interface found). I made the switch
> to eudev and eudev started just fine. I'll file a couple of bugs in a
> week and go from there. I'll work with the systemd team to resolve these
> problems.

No update here and not sure of the status as I need to investigate

> (b) gnome/kde desktop support
> I'd like to propose dropping support for gnome/kde desktop if systemd
> isn't supported on sparc. I'm note sure it makes sense long term nor
> have developer resources to continue to keyword it. I have a couple of
> desktop systems so can test easily but running xfce4 atm. I'm open to
> others opinions.

I'm going to drop support for all desktops except xfce4. If someone else
wants to help out and support another desktop, they are free to join the
team and do so.


> (c) java support
> The java team said they don't have cycles to support sparc. Support
> would have to come from the sparc team or the community. Unless someone
> steps up to help out with java, I'll propose to drop support on sparc.
> Thanks to the java team for helping us know what needs to be done to
> support java or not.

Support already dropped last year. Thanks java team.

> (5) anything else?
> Is there anything I missed? Other sections of gentoo?

I need to schedule the annual arch team meeting to elect the arch lead.
Current members are are listed below. If you are not actively working on
sparc, then please update you status.

Lead(s)	none  (No lead election date set)


Members	
Agostino Sarubbo (ago) -  Security bugs primarily )
Jeroen Roovers (jer) - ( Porting )
Jack Morgan (jmorgan) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )
Pacho Ramos (Pacho) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )
Mike Frysinger (vapier) - ( Core-only )
Michael Weber (xmw) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )
Mikle Kolyada (Zlogene) - ( Gentoo/SPARC )



> [1]https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines

Thanks,
-- 
Jack Morgan
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