On 9/25/24 1:47 PM, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Hello > > > The state of GNOME in Gentoo could use a bunch of work and we don't > really have the developers currently to take care of it. > My own grandiose plans to be back and keep things in good order faced > sad reality (a bunch of personal things) and we could really use some > help in at least carefully reviewing and merging a contributors lots of > work, and hopefully more. > While I don't have the time, energy and currently motivation to be > hands-on in the git tree right now, I am online on IRC rather > constantly (lets say while waiting on work rust code compilation ;) and > happy to help on-board an interested developer or developers with any > peculiarities (which hopefully would get documented in the process), > questions, module interactions, whatever is needed, including during PR > reviews, just please do keep in touch, so I can offload things from my > brain for a more sustainable future.
Thanks for bringing this up. I do not use gnome myself, but I use cinnamon which was based on it and uses much of its technology stack, so color me interested. > Given a huge stack of available pull requests from a contributor, the > main need right now is someone with a Gentoo developer hat who can help > review these and get good things merged, fixed what's needed, and keep > an eye out on the bugs. Of course contributors are welcome too, but > please keep an eye out for not duplicating work that's already waiting > review. And this much I can certainly do. :) > To my knowledge, one big issue right now is a circular dep between > glib->gobject-introspection->glib, which needs proper solving to move > forward with things. Or at least look at reducing the glib requirement > in gnome-shell some way to at least unleash that core stack for our > users. There are ideas we can talk about. This is... tricky. The obvious possibility is to try to build a bootstrap copy of AAA inside the ebuild for BBB as a bootstrap thing, as long as that is sufficient to build a proper copy of AAA using the partially valid installation of BBB. Chewi was also trying to see if portage can be convinced to stage the same package twice with different USE flags in the same emerge process in order to solve cyclical USE flag dependencies, but it's not a guarantee... -- Eli Schwartz
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