Ühel kenal päeval, N, 21.09.2017 kell 21:56, kirjutas Michał Górny: > Hi, everyone. > > TL;DR: I'm looking for new people to resume work on sandbox, and I > will > most likely branch it at v2.10 and start keep-alive work on top of > that. > > > The state of our sandbox is not very well. Gentoo is currently using > the old v2.10 with local patches. v2.11 is p.masked for a long time > because of multiple unsolved bugs. The git repository also includes > v2.12 tag that has not even been packaged for Gentoo. From what I've > been able to establish, the bugs causing v2.11 mask are still present > in git head. > > To add to this, the only person maintaining the code (vapier) has not > touched it since March, and AFAIA he's not responding to any contact > attempts from within Gentoo. Given this and the importance of sandbox > to > Gentoo at the moment, I think it's reasonable to presume he's MIA > and start looking for volunteers to join the effort. > > I have already added myself to the project page [1] and I'm going to > try > to put some effort into improving the state of things. However, I'm > not > really an expert in the high magic used in sandbox. If anyone is > interested in helping out, feel free to add yourself as well. > > > The above considered, I don't think I'm really going to be able to > solve > the problems introduced by v2.11. If nobody has a better idea, I'm > going > to branch sandbox at v2.10 and look into backporting whatever's > feasible > and resuming development in hotfix mode on top of that.
Do you have a handy list of problems with v2.11? Perhaps all is well for Gentoo usages after the more ptrace-happy fallbacking commit (apparently was needed by ChromeOS) is reverted if ptrace-path problems don't get fixes? Mart
