Hi Michal I could help out with phsh if you need a hand.
Cheers,
Patrice
Monday 15 Jun 2015 19:54:59, Michal Górny wrote :
> Hi, everyone.
>
> My time for Gentoo is quite limited right now (you gotta start working
> for money at some point :)), and the little time I have I'm trying to
> use for the Gentoo work I consider most important. This sadly means
> that many of my past tools are earning their share of bitrot and would
> really use a new contributors, or possibly even full-time upstream
> maintainers :).
>
> Here's a long list of projects along with short description, their state
> and planned TODO items that I won't have time to implement anytime soon.
>
>
> app-admin/eclean-kernel
>
> The tool to clean up old kernels. A bit controversial in the end
> because /boot is a mess.
>
> status: works with some /boot layouts, fails hard on some, has some
> known bugs/requests
>
> TODO:
> - figure out how it sanely could work,
> - support /boot shared between multiple systems,
> - support BootloaderSpec (maybe),
> - clean up the code, possibly rewrite in something saner than Python
> (C++?).
>
>
> app-cdr/mirage2iso
>
> Quite an old tool to convert various image formats to .iso using
> libMirage.
>
> status: working, no known bugs, may use a little cleanup
>
> TODO:
> - support selecting track to read (right now it reads first supported
> one),
> - support extracting multiple tracks (sessions) -- options to pass
> track list and output filename pattern,
> - support converting to .bin + .toc/.cue,
> - support for more track types (right now, Mode 1 & Mode 2 form 1 are
> supported),
> - support for audio tracks (how? external converter? a library?).
>
>
> app-portage/cpuinfo2cpuflags
>
> The tool to get CPU_FLAGS_X86 for your system :). Not really
> abandoned but I have some TODO items I won't be able to do soon.
>
> status: working, no known bugs
>
> TODO:
> - replace /proc/cpuinfo parsing with CPUID assembly/intrinsics --
> support more kernels than just Linux,
> - possibly extend to non-x86 arches.
>
>
> app-portage/diffmask
>
> A tool to maintain package group unmasks in sync, and clean up stale
> unmasks. Quite specific since it requires unmasks to be copied
> exactly from mask file.
>
> status: quite working, not exactly proud of the design
>
> No real TODO items but it would be nice to think a bit about
> the design and figure out if we couldn't do something more user-
> friendly (i.e. not being that strictly bound to package.mask).
>
>
> app-portage/flaggie
>
> The package.use (& make.conf) flag management tool. Pretty high
> priority.
>
> status: rather working, has a few bugs, certainly would use some new
> Portage features
>
> TODO:
> - remove make.conf editing support (it's very complex and broken --
> can eat random '$' from the file in some cases),
> - therefore: edit global flags via '*/*' entries in package.use,
> - support writing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND in package.use,
> - support parsing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND on command-line
> (i.e. 'flaggie libfoo VIDEO_CARDS: +radeon -nvidia'),
> - remove implicit '*' expansion in package names and flag names --
> package.use can handle '*', so leave it as is and just expand it
> when checking if the flags are supported,
> - possibly clean up package.use writer (or rewrite it since I'm
> no longer able to figure out how it works exactly :)).
>
>
> app-portage/gentoopm
>
> A wrapper providing nice API to all three Package Managers. Used by
> gpyutils, smart-live-rebuild...
>
> status: stuck in EAPI 4 era, might have some hidden bugs
>
> TODO:
> - add APIs for EAPI 5 -- but this requires Package Manager APIs first,
> - maybe some cleanup.
>
>
> app-portage/install-mask
>
> A tool to update INSTALL_MASK in make.conf using well-known file
> groups. Uses make.conf manipulation code from flaggie.
>
> status: working, make.conf manipulation broken as in flaggie
>
> TODO:
> - the tool should be killed, and INSTALL_MASK group support should be
> moved into Portage :). Alike:
>
> INSTALL_MASK="@systemd @locale -@locale_pl"
>
> with matches being applied sequentially, and groups being defined
> in $repo/metadata/install-mask.conf [and masters].
>
>
> app-portage/pms-test-suite
>
> A GSoC project and as such, totally abandoned. Not sure if anybody
> really cares these days.
>
> status: stuck in EAPI 4 era, waiting for EAPI 5 in gentoopm...
>
> TODO:
> - support EAPI 5,
> - find some use for it?
>
>
> dev-util/atomic-install
>
> A nice one -- tool to quasi-atomically install files from $D to live
> system. The idea is to replace live files as fast as possible,
> and quickly revert that if it fails in the middle. Never finished but
> nevertheless a good idea :). If someone's up for it, I'd love to see
> it working one day.
>
> status: never reached 'fully working' state
>
> How it was supposed to work (and mostly works):
> - writes 'journal' synchronously with file lists and current status,
> - copies (CoWs, hardlinks) files from $D to live system renaming them
> to .${filename}.NEW.${random-id-from-journal},
> - copies (CoWs, hardlinks) existing files in live system to backups
> as .${filename}.OLD.${random-id-from-journal},
> - does a quick rename() run to replace files in live system to .NEW
> variants,
> - if all goes fine, removes .OLD files and the journal,
> - if it fails, does a quick rename() run to replace files in live
> system back with .OLD variants and cleans up copies afterwards,
> - possibly: use some fancy btrfs features :).
>
>
> sys-apps/uam
>
> The udev-based automounter. Used by a lot of people who don't like
> udisks, and also on some non-Gentoo distros.
>
> status: working, one known bug :)
>
> No real TODO items. I simply don't use it anymore, so I can't handle
> bugs properly :).
>
>
> www-servers/pshs
>
> A simple HTTP(s) server using libevent to share files passed
> on command-line. This one I'll probably keep maintaining, yet there
> are some features I'd love to see patches for :).
>
> status: working, there's some problem with UPnP on my system
>
> TODO:
> - figure out why it longer figures out the external IP via UPnP
> (maybe libminiupnpc API change),
> - support HTTP authentication,
> - support uploading files (via upload form),
> - support recursive directory sharing,
> - awesome, pretty ncurses output with progressbars on active
> downloads using background color (like aptitude),
> - think of more fun features to support!
>
>
> x11-libs/libtinynotify*
> x11-misc/sw-notify-send
> x11-misc/tinynotify-send
>
> A 'more lightweight' library to send notification-daemon
> notifications. Its cool feature is support for pseudo-systemwide
> notifications -- if you give it root privileges, it's going to look
> hard for active D-Bus sessions and try to send notifications to all
> of them!
>
> status: works, didn't see a change in a long time
>
> TODO:
> - figure out if there's anything to do :),
> - maybe improve the systemwide API -- right now it's rather dumb.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michal Górny
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