Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2012-01-02 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/19/11 7:14 PM, Sébastien Fabbro wrote: One project that could be very useful for Gentoo is an automated stabilization/testing for ebuilds. Obviously it will require some work from the ebuild maintainers, but the ability to distribute the stabilization recipes across a volunteering Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was typically accessible at the time outside of universities and LANs. Could be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Francesco Riosa
2011/12/22 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org wrote: I looked into this 6 or 7 years ago. It wasn't feasible unless you were on an extremely high-speed, low-latency network, beyond what was typically accessible at the time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-22 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:11:32 +0100 Francesco Riosa viv...@gmail.com wrote: I tried messing around with this with Amazon EC2.  The problem was that due to latency I only really saw the benefit for VERY high levels of parallelization (think -j25+)..  However, make isn't actually

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-19 Thread Christian Ruppert
On Thursday 15 December 2011 23:37:10 Gaurav Saxena wrote: Hello all , Thanks a lot for your replies. Christian, I am interested in Open RC, it sounds interesting to me, I would like to know more details regarding what type of projects are there that could be done. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-19 Thread Sébastien Fabbro
Gaurav Saxena grvsaxena...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as well as gentoo. I am

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-18 Thread Petteri Räty
On 14.12.2011 13:06, Gaurav Saxena wrote: Hello all, I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as well as gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-18 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 12/18/11 6:02 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: There are parallel computing aspects in libbash for metadata generation, data structures in AST building for bash and it's quite low level. By the way, I've always wondered why libbash is separate from the upstream bash. Have you considered contributing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-18 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:13:42 +0100 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12/18/11 6:02 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: There are parallel computing aspects in libbash for metadata generation, data structures in AST building for bash and it's quite low level. By the way, I've always

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 December 2011 00:39:44 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:43:33 Alec Warner wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote: i'd be really happy if someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-15 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2011 00:39:44 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: Nevertheless, the basic bug is about changing the distfile repository format in such a way that a single repo can contain several distfiles built with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: Nevertheless, the basic bug is about changing the distfile repository format in such a way that a single repo can contain several distfiles built with differing build conditions. Putting metadata in the filename is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 December 2011 07:43:26 Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: Nevertheless, the basic bug is about changing the distfile repository format in such a way that a single repo can contain several distfiles built with differing build

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 15 December 2011 11:30:46 Mike Frysinger wrote: if people want to post multiple binpkgs with different metadata err, half formed thought here ... ignore -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-15 Thread Gaurav Saxena
Hello all , Thanks a lot for your replies. Christian, I am interested in Open RC, it sounds interesting to me, I would like to know more details regarding what type of projects are there that could be done. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Christian Ruppert id...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-15 Thread Gaurav Saxena
Hello Alec, I am interested in a distributed compiler like this ,this involves quite a good project it seems. I would like to work on it, if possible could you please give me some pointers regarding more details about the project so that I could decide what to work upon. On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Christian Ruppert
On Wednesday 14 December 2011 16:36:42 Gaurav Saxena wrote: Hello all, I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that would be helpful to me as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread C. Bergström
On 12/15/11 01:05 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2011 16:36:42 Gaurav Saxena wrote: Hello all, I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you please suggest me some

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Gaurav Saxena grvsaxena...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am interested in doing my final year computer scence project on gentoo. I would be having a duration of six months to work on the project. Could you please suggest me some good project ideas that would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Leho Kraav
i'd be really happy if someone took care of https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 : include more info about binpkg in file name

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote: i'd be really happy if someone took care of https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 : include more info about binpkg in file name That is great, but its not a 6 month project... -A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:43:33 Alec Warner wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote: i'd be really happy if someone took care of https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 : include more info about binpkg in file name That is great, but its not a 6 month

Re: [gentoo-dev] Six month major project on Gentoo

2011-12-14 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday 14 December 2011 18:43:33 Alec Warner wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com wrote: i'd be really happy if someone took care of https://bugs.gentoo.org/150031 : include more