[gentoo-project] Shiny new stuff

[gentoo-project] Shiny new stuff

[Patrick Lauer]

Hi All,

I've been thinking about the perceived lack of progress in Gentoo a bit. And 
somehow it doesn't fit - there are so many nice things. What I did notice 
though is a lack of communication. Sometimes you mention "Hey, would be great 
if we had X" on IRC and three people point you at different implementations 
of the thing you've been searching for the last three months.


Here's my challenge to you: Point out and describe the cool things that other 
people might not now. Small helper apps, overlays with crazy stuff, ricer 
patches and whatever else you can think of.

I can think of a few well known ones:

eix, the fast search tool for portage. Really shiny.
OpenRC - Awesome init system. It's deviously fast and makes Fedora look like a 
relict of the 70s
Layman - started as a small helper script, now gives access to around 3000 
ebuilds (or even more, I haven't counted them in a while)
Portage - with 2.2 on the horizon there are some neat features (like sets and 
obsoleting revdep-rebuild)

I'd really appreciate a few pointers at your pet projects, shiny new things 
and even half-baked ideas that are far from being usable. Just show us what 
is out there waiting to be polished, packaged and used by legions of happy 
users!

Thanks,

Patrick
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Re: [gentoo-project] Shiny new stuff

[Nirbheek Chauhan]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Patrick Lauer
<bugs@dev.gentooexperimental.org> wrote:
[snip]
> I'd really appreciate a few pointers at your pet projects, shiny new things
> and even half-baked ideas that are far from being usable. Just show us what
> is out there waiting to be polished, packaged and used by legions of happy
> users!

I would point everyone to this summer's GSoC projects :)
A few links:

- http://code.google.com/soc/2008/gentoo/about.html (this year's projects)
- http://soc.gentooexperimental.org/ (the place where a few of them are hosted)
- Links to this week's SoC reports:
   - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_b014f2426bf38053cd06a725be68d316.xml
   - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_44844f2cd0b01317b00194d8f5a0ec2a.xml
   - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_5fccab3d5a6cbca82009aa5e08623c07.xml
   - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_83d7aec68e0f8c677d2f20c4763f0188.xml
   - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_d3e81b2c7764ade63c8a7d8f372c66d5.xml
   - http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-soc/msg_7b8cf5c6033d78f8afb3d5919b81560b.xml

This month's GMN will probably also contain interviews of (some of?)
the students and mentors involved :)


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Re: [gentoo-project] Shiny new stuff

[Robin H. Johnson]

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:50:48PM +0000, Patrick Lauer wrote:
> I'd really appreciate a few pointers at your pet projects, shiny new things 
> and even half-baked ideas that are far from being usable. Just show us what 
> is out there waiting to be polished, packaged and used by legions of happy 
> users!
infra:
- Bugzilla migration to Hyves-provided servers. Includes fully-redundant
  web boxes now (previously only the DBs were redundant).
- New Gentoo services bot. The previous Jeeves was heavily tied via
  direct MySQL to bugzilla, and it's replacement "Willikins" now uses
  public HTTP access to Bugzilla, and is fully open-source. All of the
  other Gentoo-specific functionality is in the gentoo-rbot plugin.
  rbot-bugzilla: http://git.flameeyes.eu/?p=rbot-bugzilla.git;a=summary
  gentoo-rbot: git://halcy0n.com/gentoo-rbot.git

myself:
- auto-assignment stuff. last discussed
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/49601
  v3 to be posted soon.
- MetaManifest/treesigning
  http://viewcvs.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/users/robbat2/tree-signing-gleps/

misc where i'm involved, mostly back-burner stuff:
- distindex with rbu, searchable index of filenames from distfiles and
  binpkgs.
  http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/distindex.git;a=summary

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[gentoo-project] Re: Shiny new stuff

[Ryan Hill]

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:12:07 -0700
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> - Bugzilla migration to Hyves-provided servers. Includes
> fully-redundant web boxes now (previously only the DBs were
> redundant).

Any updates on the status of the bugzilla 3.0 upgrade if you don't mind
me asking?


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