On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 12/25/2009 06:10 AM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> I will make it short, since i already requested it 3 times, did create a >>> thread at gentoo-dev ML: >>> >>> agenda topic: Discussion and approval for following item: >>> >>> Adding real multilib features from current multilib-portage to currently >>> hardmasked and testing >>> portage-2.2* for wider testing, more eyes looking at it and hopefully more >>> people helping improving >>> it, so we can get a version, which most can accept for PMS and maybe next >>> EAPI. >> >> Sorry, I forgot to send an email explaining what happened on the >> council alias as promised. The consensus was that the project wasn't >> mature enough to go ahead. Also more generally the council's job isn't >> discussing but deciding, approving, etc... Discussing is what should >> happen on mailing lists. > > Since i see noone arguing against adding the multilib features to current > testing branch of portage, > the discussion part already seems to be done. so a simple approval is ok, > drop the discussion request. > >> Before you can bring that to the council we >> need to see an as-much-as-possible finalized solution with any of the >> following if applicable: portage branch with an implementation that >> people can try, documentation, PMS patch, devmanual patches, and a >> team. > > Did you actually read my lines? I did NOT request an ACK to add it to PMS and > next EAPI with a > complete spec. zmedico also has no problem with having a look and adding it, > but since he was once > forced to remove an added feature, he now wants a council-ok before adding > and improving it in > testing branch of main tree portage. > >> By team I mean: who is going to maintain this in the long run if >> necessary? A one man team is a dead team, it's only a matter of time. > > Much code is maintained by a single person, even the package maintainers have > one maintainer and > some contributors. And with integrating it in main tree portage, there will > additionally be the > portage team. > >> If the amd64 team is going to be the one doing this job, and this is >> just an example buy the way, then we need them to tell us they're OK >> with it. > > If any other team raises its voice, no problem with me, but it seems more > like noone wants to do the > work. > >> Now don't get me wrong. I love your project and the last thing I want >> is to shoot it down. > > In this case, you will shoot it down. I wont be able to maintain the code > alone, do all requested > code changes, spec writing, PMS patches etc beside my work and other projects > i do within Gentoo. So > if you stop me from getting help by integrating it in *testing* portage (not > the 2.1.* versions, > only the 2.2* versions, which contains more and experimental code), it will > probably stay at the > current level and nothing more will happen. > I can live myself with a private fork of portage, which contains the features > i like, it is easy to > only do some basic changes and some workarounds to get it personally working > without much time. > But on the other hand, all people, who would like to see emul-linux-* > packages dropped, would like > to actually compile recent versions of 32bit libs and would like to compile > additional libs not in > those emul-linux-* packages in addition to multi-ABI support for other ARCHes > and multi-SLOT support > for the different languages (support parallel install for different SLOTS of > e.g. python, perl or > ruby) would have to do their own local or eclass hacks to get their thing > working. > >> Look at what happened with prefix. They wanted >> the council to approve it immediately or else... We didn't cede to >> pressure and worked with them to make it good enough for approval. > > Something like "I/We want <x>,<y>,<z> or you wont get an approval" is no > support and no "work with > them". So if you really would like to see it in, actually help with patches, > SPEC writing, > discussion and code writing. Else i request an approval for getting some > additional help instead of > just shooting it down. > >> Right now I don't hear anybody arguing about prefix going forward. And >> that's exactly what I want for your project, i.e. helping you making >> it better instead of it fading and failing in the (not so) long run. > > prefix is no one-man-team and the actual amount of people, who can and are > willing to work on > portage code is limited, so which other way do you have to improve it as > requested? > > And yes, it is frustrating to see 3 council sessions and months going by and > still no offer to > support, no discussion, no patches and no decision is made. I can see now, > why such project did die > before and why people dont want to do such things, which can actually improve > the experience with > Gentoo and can give our userbase more options and choice. > >> >> I will stop now because I'm at a bus stop near Mount Fuji and I need >> to go. I hope the other council members, especially the more >> technically competent ones than me, will get back to you on this and >> offer help and advice. As soon as I have a better internet connection >> I will contact you about this. > > Feel free to do so. > > P.S.: I dont want to affront you or anyone else personally, but the way, how > it currently goes. I > know from IRC, forums and mails, that there are people around, who would like > to see > multilib-features in portage. But with such frustrating none-actions like > this, noone should wonder > why such things are not implemented, also there are people, who would like to > see it and even > people, who would help doing it and creating code for it. That does not > actually speak for Gentoo, > more against it (and it is not the only point, where Gentoo could improve, > but does not, but that > could be part of another big mail). > > > -- > Thomas Sachau > > Gentoo Linux Developer > >
People are honestly just waiting for this to hit the tree at this point. Inaction by the council is a serious failure of the council. The Portage team doesn't want to start integrating code that the council will force them to remove in the future. Being a former council member myself I can easily say, get off your ass and do something. -- Doug Goldstein
