Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in bugzilla [1]), that would be swell! Cheers, Dirkjan [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039 [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay Hi Dirkjan, Few of my packages depend on boost therefore I don't want to see this package rotten on the tree. However, I do not have the hardware to perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a significant amount of resources during compilation phase. I will add myself on metadata.xml but I will try to find a couple of users to help me maintain it and become proxy maintainer for them. Thanks for letting us know Regards, -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410 pgpJObVPkVPbI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
On 2010-12-12, at 3:19 PM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in bugzilla [1]), that would be swell! Cheers, Dirkjan [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039 [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay Hi Dirkjan, Few of my packages depend on boost therefore I don't want to see this package rotten on the tree. However, I do not have the hardware to perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a significant amount of resources during compilation phase. I will add myself on metadata.xml but I will try to find a couple of users to help me maintain it and become proxy maintainer for them. I use boost frequently and have a machine that can compile it quickly. Let me know if you want help. Boost is an important package to me. I will have free time after the 21st. (exams) Thanks for letting us know Regards, -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410
Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
On 12/12/10 9:19 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: However, I do not have the hardware to perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a significant amount of resources during compilation phase. Note that Gentoo has some machines for development purposes, see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml I'm using one of those for www-client/chromium development, and it's very helpful. Paweł signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 09:42:24PM +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 12/12/10 9:19 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: However, I do not have the hardware to perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a significant amount of resources during compilation phase. Note that Gentoo has some machines for development purposes, see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml I'm using one of those for www-client/chromium development, and it's very helpful. Paweł This summer, I requested access to one of the amd64 boxes but I was told that both of them are in a non-working state so ... Furthermore, maintaining a devbox (especially when it is broken) requires extra time which I don't have. Can you please tell me which box ( I'd prefer an amd64 one ) are you using for chromium? If it is in a working state I will ask for access again! -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410 pgpwKJoOFzqpZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 15:19, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in bugzilla [1]), that would be swell! Cheers, Dirkjan [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039 [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay Hi Dirkjan, Few of my packages depend on boost therefore I don't want to see this package rotten on the tree. However, I do not have the hardware to perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a significant amount of resources during compilation phase. I will add myself on metadata.xml but I will try to find a couple of users to help me maintain it and become proxy maintainer for them. Thanks for letting us know Regards, -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410 I have a couple machines that can build it, and also have an interest in boost for some other software I work on. I'd be happy to help, just need to know what needs to be done. -Ross
Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 06:10:49PM -0500, ross smith wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 15:19, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 09:20:51PM +0100, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in bugzilla [1]), that would be swell! Cheers, Dirkjan [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039 [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay Hi Dirkjan, Few of my packages depend on boost therefore I don't want to see this package rotten on the tree. However, I do not have the hardware to perform any kind of build testing to this package because it requires a significant amount of resources during compilation phase. I will add myself on metadata.xml but I will try to find a couple of users to help me maintain it and become proxy maintainer for them. Thanks for letting us know Regards, -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410 I have a couple machines that can build it, and also have an interest in boost for some other software I work on. I'd be happy to help, just need to know what needs to be done. -Ross My intention is to start working on boost version bump in my overlay based on the feedback from bug #320039. If someone wants write access in my overlay please email me along with your ssh key so I can compile a list and send it to overlays team to grant you access. If someone wants to start building the latest version ( ebuild attached on that bug ) feel free to do so and report problems/fixes/ etc -- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410 pgpxdOC5WnqyT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
On 12/12/10 9:57 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: Can you please tell me which box ( I'd prefer an amd64 one ) are you using for chromium? If it is in a working state I will ask for access again! I'm using miranda. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-dev] Boost maintenance
A few months ago I spent some time bringing dev-libs/boost up to date because it was blocking some Python issues. Sebastian Luther helped me out (I more or less proxied from his overlay [2]). However, since I have no intrinsic interest in Boost, I have found it hard to find time to keep maintaining it (particularly since it's a pretty large package, and far from my area of expertise). Sebastian also seems slightly less available, though that might be due in part to my lack of interest. In any case, I'm going to remove myself from the maintainer-list. dev-zero is still in there, but AFAICT he hasn't spent any time on it over the past six months or so. If anybody else would like to pick it up (there are a lot of enthousiastic users in bugzilla [1]), that would be swell! Cheers, Dirkjan [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320039 [2] https://github.com/few/few-s-gentoo-overlay
