RFC Final Comment Period: Add -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs

2023-09-10 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
An RFC has now entered its Final Comment Period. In 14 days, discussion
will end and the proposal will either be accepted, rejected or withdrawn:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/23

Please visit the above link for discussion.

Summary: Add -Wl,-z,pack-relative-relocs to our LDFLAGS in order to reduce
the size of relocations.


Arch Linux in August 2023

2023-09-10 Thread Levente Polyak

## Staff

We would like to welcome Tomaz Canabrava (tcanabrava) as part of the 
Arch Linux Package Maintainer team.


## AURWeb

In [AURWeb v6.2.7][0], we primarily focused on bug fixes while revamping 
Prometheus metrics. We introduced new measures like request tracking and 
cache-hit/miss ratios for search queries, enhancing our ability to make 
development decisions and aiding the AUR moderation team in identifying 
trends.


Collaborating with the DevOps team, we introduced a CI/CD feature called 
[Review Apps][1]. This feature enables us to create virtual machines 
running AURWeb for each merge request, facilitating change showcases, 
manual testing, and involving a wider audience for performance, 
stress-testing, and UI verification.


## RFC

We [proposed and accepted an RFC][2] to define the default of not using 
`PyPI` for Python package sources and only use the platform if there is 
no other alternative. You can find more details about [this RFC][2] on 
GitLab. By making this change, we ensure to have a more reliable and 
less cumbersome default.


## Trademark Policy

We've [relocated our Trademark Policy][3] from the Developer area of the 
ArchWiki to the [service-agreements GitLab repository][4], which is 
published at [`terms.archlinux.org`][5]. This move centralizes all legal 
documents, ensuring consistent collaboration across our service 
agreement materials.


[0]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/tags/v6.2.7
[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/review_apps/
[2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/20
[3]: 
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/service-agreements/-/merge_requests/22

[4]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/service-agreements/
[5]: https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/trademark-policy/


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