October 2018 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] Can anyone take nvidia-390xx?
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

I don't run nvidia-390xx on any of my devices. I would appreciate it if somebody could take those drivers. I will continue maintaining the mainline nvidia package.

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[arch-dev-public] Improving overall experience for contributors
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 06 Feb '19

06 Feb '19

Hi all, Spending some time outside the regular Arch circles, I realized that the way we "outreach" potential contributors is at least imperfect. One of the problems I keep hearing about is that there is no clear place where potential contributors could start. Sure, some things seem obvious to us: take care of some wiki article or adopt orphan AUR packages. It isn't actually that easy. Not everyone is interested in editing or maintaining random packages, and while there is plenty to do, how someone new could know it? We could use help not only with existing projects like archweb, pyalpm or namcap, but also with development of new code (for example a maintainable rebuild automation) and infrastructure side (which is in fact too generic term that could be better described). I am totally in love with What can I do for Mozilla?[1] which is open source, so why not steal this wonderful idea? But it also means we need a way to communicate with people interested in helping us: at least an IRC channel and new mailing list. Another thing that I heard in last few months isthat it is actually hard for potential TU candidates to find a sponsor. While I believe it is perfectly fine to e-mail few potential sponsors to ask for opinion, throwing random messages at people doesn't sound really appealing. In my humble opinion, we should rethink the way we recruit people and probably introduce fine-grained permissions to dbscripts that would allow to limit new maintainers to limited set of packages. We should also lower our expectations towards candidates. At least once we rejected one for some stupid reason (no fingerpointing here, I'm not saint either), leaving packages they wanted to adopt virtually orphan. It's better to help amn inexperienced packager gain experience than voting no, really; to be brutally honest, quite a lot of packaging work we are handling doesn't have much in common with rocket science. I also wanted to touch mailing lists vs GitHub vs Gitlab topic but we will tackle it another time. Your thoughts? Bartłomiej [1] https://whatcanidoformozilla.org/

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[arch-dev-public] Arch Linux Cloud Images (virtualbox and Qemu)
by Christian Rebischke 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hello everybody, Some months ago Bartlomiej had the awesome idea to generate qemu and virtualbox images as well. Afterwards we had a small discussion about this topic in #archlinux-projects. I would like to refresh this discussion and move it to this mail thread. So, our vagrant boxes are building automatically and without issues for a few months now. I could just generate virtualbox and qemu images as side products monthly, but I have no idea how we would release them. Another big topic is security. The vagrant images are at the moment not signed and seems like vagrantcloud doesn't support this either. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't sign our qemu or virtualbox images. We could just generate an automated cloud image signing key (only for this purpose) of course and automatically sign the images with that key. Problem with this is: If our build server ever get pwned the person will have these keys for signing cloud images as well. Any opinion about this? In my humble opinion I would be fine with a signing key that follows only this particular purpose. Another idea would be to move the whole production process to a physical server behind a firewall that is physical accessible by one or more Arch Linux Developers. I really would like to push this forward. Any comments? Chris

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[arch-dev-public] .gnuog owned by root when using devtools in first place
by NicoHood 13 Oct '18

13 Oct '18

I ran extra-x86_64-build on a new system with an uninitialized gnupg keyring. I think it was responsible for creating a .~/gnupg directory, but with root privilegs. I chowned it to my user, it is all good now. Maybe the script could be improved to check if the gnupg keyring was initialzed or not, to prevent such issues. I was confused in the first place. ~Nico

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[arch-dev-public] Removing the vim-systemd package
by Alexander Rødseth 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Hi, systemd syntax support is now included in both vim and neovim. I'm removing the vim-systemd package from [community]. -- Best regards, Alexander F. Rødseth

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[arch-dev-public] Away for two weeks
by Jelle van der Waa 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Hi all, I'll be away for two weeks without a laptop so I won't be able to do any packaging. Feel free to update my packages or fix my open bugs ^_^ If there is something really urgent, I should be able to reply via e-mail. -- Jelle van der Waa

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