From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2EF138CD1 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 19:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CBBBE0894; Sun, 17 May 2015 19:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DD2FE0894 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 19:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36210208B0 for ; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:42:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 17 May 2015 15:42:05 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=psych0tik.net; h= content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=Yrub5 TPXnrBF7Nfx5qq2ZPS73Fs=; b=sRl/8EPi5gMAb85h9IkU1dROtP/B2GCvxmFjN M+5dqty+qW+RLZ3KG9QGuc/6eMts1+YORfmcC/RyMVmP62OIFRc9TtHSjJt063Ok gCYrj2YZyzE6BuEDCSYeEgK3WXQcIcqqer+8VDBGhY2jmE7EManRfhbMs3CzzLVu OT4X0I= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=Yrub5TPXnrBF7Nfx5qq2ZPS73Fs=; b=AA5tu pH/SqJGwG8+iZuXstDuw9kTsY24481CIEQkmcOX+yzZxZmHuik0KpRcbSLhxBazn pnCFttHVtaft9v9JgXLgiMATxUI7V1OTSa+b0ajlD2FT2HPYNgaXYrg3ybd7vIoN NZo88bJfoaBN+ZDILN1pw5dhrGiPT18Kvrect0= X-Sasl-enc: 8cWAYbGbsXdOzAnQ6msH/ucdPPrRzDBLrgcnUVAYyUw9 1431891724 Received: from xenia (unknown [199.87.86.204]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A971BC00011; Sun, 17 May 2015 15:42:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 12:42:02 -0700 From: Richo Healey To: gentoo-powerpc , gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-powerpc] PowerPC meeting minutes - 05/15/15 Message-ID: <20150517194202.GA4524@xenia> References: <5558A251.1040102@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo on PowerPC X-BeenThere: gentoo-powerpc@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-powerpc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5558A251.1040102@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: a2bd5c34-b6fe-4fb8-a3ea-69fe0b9fe89c X-Archives-Hash: 26a13424efbc949fe6570509862be1b2 On 17/05/15 07:14 -0700, Jack Morgan wrote: >Team, > >The PowerPC developer team had a meeting this week. Here are the >meeting minutes from our meeting on 05/15/15. Also sending this out to >gentoo-dev list to get feedback from a wide audience. > > >0) roll call >jmorgan, blueness, JoseJX were present. rej and lu_zero responded >after reading backlog. > > >1) Developer status > >For those who didn't make the meeting, please check the list of >developers in the wiki[1]. If you are no longer active on powerpc or >taking a break, please let us know. If you would like to help out >either by becoming an Arch Testor (AT) or are a developer who has some >cycles/hardware to spare, we would appreciate the assistance. > > >2) Status of timberdoodle[2] > >Who is "managing" this system? >--We discovered that several developers have sudo access, blueness >volunteered to be the point of contact for this resource. He will work >with infra to update the contact person details in the wiki[2]. If you >would like a shell account to do keyword testing, let him know. > > >3) keywordreq/stablereq > >(a) systemd support >--No one mentioned they have tested systemd on a live system. Though >this feature has been keyworded, it is not known if it works of not on >a live system. I said I would try in a week or so. If you are running >ppc/ppc64 on systemd, it would be good to know that. I had trouble >getting it working on sparc for example. I'm told there might not be a >lot of support for non-Intel based hardware. Lurking in, and without being able to speak for gentoo specifically, I'm running systemd on a powermac 11,2 (ppc64 kernel, 32 bit userland) under Debian sid, and it more or less works, save for some (annoying, but not unworkable) quirks. > >(b) gnome/kde desktop support >--Based on whether systemd works or not, we will evaluate continuing >supporting these desktops. I believe systemd is required for gnome for >example. I'm not sure of the state of kde, need to test it. For now, >we consider these desktops stable on powerpc and will reevaluate this >at a future date. > >(c) java support >--The java team is working on getting java stable on both ppc/ppc64. >Thanks for their effort. We need to be testing, keywording and closing >any open bugzilla on java to assist in this effort. Please take a look >at those bugs in bugzilla. > >(d) broken install due to yaboot/sys-fs/e2fsprogs bug (527974) >--A user reported on IRC that they were not able to complete an >install due to this bug. After some discussion, JoseJX said he would >look into it. He was able to attach a patch and Spanky (vapier) was >able to make some adjustments. This patch seems to have fixed the >problem. JoseJX will continue to work this bug. Once that is done, we >now need to build new stage3 and possibly an installcd. > >(e) overall bugzilla status: >ppc: total bugs (114), keywordreq (62), stablereq (11) >ppc64: total bugs (104), keywordreq (22), stablereq (51) > >Here are our bug count in bugzilla at the time of writing. Thanks to >everyone who is helping keep our bug count low. > > >4) opens >--Just a reminder that we have consolidated our mailing lists to a >single gentoo-powerpc@lists.gentoo.org list now. Please join the list >if you are interested in this arch. >--We will have a team meeting every few months (once a quarter) to >sync up on powerpc development work. > > >[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PowerPC >[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Infrastructure/Developer_Machines > >thanks, Thanks for the update!