Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: your achievements

[Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@gentoo.org>]

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On Friday, June 21, 2019 6:21:00 AM PDT Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 12:42 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> > I propose to have one question per thread spawned by this e-mail to
> > keep discussion focused. If you have multiple questions, please
> > start multiple threads. If your question was already asked, please
> > join a thread.
> 
> I'd like to ask all nominees a very simple open question: what have you
> done to improve Gentoo in the last year?  Please focus on noticeable
> achievements and successes, rather than general things like 'I've copied
> few hundred ebuilds to newer versions'.
Hi, 

Some notable things I've done last year (and I've been a developer roughly 
same amount of time)
Not sure if those considered achievements, they are for me.

- Taken over all jvm/jdk/jre maintenance in gentoo over from chewi (with 
exception to oracle proprietary variants)
It involves, for example, building icedtea tarballs for amd64,arm,arm64,ppc64, 
ppc64le so users can bootstrap their own from-source jvm.
And since cross-compiling jvm is not so great idea I have to do it on native 
machines as qemu does not always work for that.
Also continued chewi's work on openjdk, added openjdk8, different JRE and 
notably openjfx, which was deemed unpackageable.

I'm not involved in any java library/package maintenance, this area is still 
in a very bad state unfortunately and the modern java toolset is very portage-
unfriendly.

But at least we still have working icedtea/openjdk for a lot of arches and 
will soon have full jdk+jfx alternative to oracle-jdk.


- taken over zfs maintenance. ebuilds were not in a very good state due to 
various reasons, now it's much better, updates are in time and bugs are 
handled.
Gentoo always was a first-class distro in ZoL world (thanks to ryao) and it 
still is.


- I've been maintaining a lot of rust related thing lately, not a lot was done 
in this area but situation is improving and there are plans on adding cross-
compilation support to rust and maybe improve situation with crate bundling.


- Attended SCALE17x conference, brought some arm devices to attract people to 
gentoo booth. Next time I'm going to come a bit more prepared as this year our 
stand was very bare-bones.


- I got to mentor someone, we'll increase our headcount soon =)

Regards, Georgy.

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