W dniu czw, 21.09.2017 o godzinie 23∶33 +0300, użytkownik Mart Raudsepp napisał: > 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? >
There are two bugs listed in p.mask reason. There's a lot of bugs on Bugzilla but I don't know which versions they affect. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
