Time for another one! Sorry if this one is later than the rest - I've been a tad busy today. ---------- ArchLinux Status Report, 2007-10-01 == Newsworthy Items == * Testing Policy In order to provide a working system to all users, we are going to ensure that all packages in [core] always go through testing first. The core repo is critical enough to where if anything breaks, it is a big deal. Far different than if we broke gnumeric. Core packages should go to testing, and at least one other developer should "sign off" when they've tested it. For simplicity, if you want to skip the [testing] step for non "base" group packages, and provide a direct link to a package for others to sign off, that is fine - as long as 2 developers are accountable for the working state of that package. This shortcut should not be taken for packages in the base group. == Completed Tasks == * Move all Arch related projects to gerolde Looks like we're only missing one project, which we should be able to get to today, so I'm going to say this is "done". Thanks a lot guys. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7789 * AUR 1.4.0 Release Special thanks to everyone involved (eliott, tardo, louipc, xilon, thralas, and more). * Bugfix ISO Release With the release of the 2007.08-2 ISOs, we have a functional installer again. Our previous ISOs broke when we moved to the [core] repo. Special thanks to tpowa for all his hard work, and to all the testers who made it possible. * Devtools updates This was an item from last time that Dan and I completed. We have not yet released a new devtools tarball, as I'd like to wait for the chroot build tools to be complete. Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001883.html == Pending Tasks, Short Term == * db and heimdal out of [testing] The rebuilds have been in testing for some time, and I haven't seen any issues. If there are no show stoppers, we should be able to move these out this week. Could someone confirm this is the case? * Package and Orphan Cleanup Our list has grown, so thanks for all who've adjusted things here. https://www.archlinux.org/wiki/Repo%20Cleanup/ I'm not a fan of these "all orphans in XYZ" items though. Umbrella clauses such as this usually don't work too well - I'd prefer full definitions. Could someone fill those items in appropriately? * DVD and Additional Package ISO Lists We still have yet to fully define the packages we'd like to distribute on additional ISOs. Here I have created a stub https://www.archlinux.org/wiki/ISO-Packages/ Please use this to _explicitly_ list things you want or don't want on these additional ISOs. * Unified chroot build tools I have two automated tools slated for commit to devtools soon. I have a few fixes still to push up there (such as auto-generating a locale, using sudo, etc), but in general, they are in a working state. http://code.phraktured.net/?p=devtools.git;a=summary * Perl policy This item was previously listed as "Use vendor_perl for pacman perl packages", but I'm expanding it. This policy here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Policy Was written by some perl pros, cross referenced with the Debian perl policy, and I think I agree with most of it. So I want to officially implement this. If you care about perl, lets discuss this. I, however, am going to begin with the following bug reports: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8082 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8236 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7530 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7587 == Pending Tasks, Long Term == * Pacman 3.1 Release http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8109 We're creeping slowly in this direction. Special thanks to Chantry Xavier for actually submitting patches, heh. * DB Script Rewrite This one went by the wayside. It appears we're sitting in one of those "not broke" modes. I'd still love to actually do this, but I'm moving it to the "long term" items, as it's not all that critical, ans there are better things to do. * Official pacbuild usage Jason sent out a status thread last week with where http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/001944.html * 'Continuous Integration' setup / machine The state hasn't changed much since last time. This is still more of a pipe-dream. Dan pointed out the fact that git actually ships with CI tools ("cidaemon" and "post-recieve-cidaemon") that we could take advantage of. * Modernize our Dashboard Eliott and Simo have been helping me out here. I'm going to give us all a nice document on setting up a local instance for the arch web interface, so we can develop on our own. In addition, we need to move the git repo to projects.al.org but we currently have passwords in there that need to be sanitized. * Architecture Independent Repos Added to flyspray: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8153 It appears that we can implement noarch packages with very little changes. This combines, in a way with the Pacman 3.1 release, and db script rewrites above. * ArchCon 2009: Big Baaad Idea Any ideas for a venue? I wonder, if we had a little donation drive to help the developers all get together, would that be cheating? http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001614.html == Bugs and Issues == I didn't notice anything critical this time around - could someone fill in the blanks here, I didn't have time to scrape major issues together. ---------- Thanks everyone, for your continued hard work. In the upcoming weeks, I have a few grand plans I want to implement, but I'm waiting for a bit of a lull in these important items here. Stay tuned! -- Aaron