On 2017-04-30 09:43, Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes via arch-general wrote:

During this and the end of previous year some ideas and projects were started to adress some problems, but most of them get now silence and nothing more. I'm talking about

* ABS deprecation draft, Will be one or just ABS will be removed and ASP (which sound like Active Server Pages) will be pushed or both will coexist until it get broken?

asp is already in extra. Yesterday I prepared changes to Ansible playbooks and another one for disabling ABS. I just need to write a news draft. (Again, because I believe not everyone gets it: we're doing everything in our personal, free time; our lives do not end on making Arch.)

* What happend with the project of sign-off from non TU that was mentioned a few months? Is still runing? is there a way/path to get involved?

We're getting signoffs from selected group of testers. You can contact Florian Pritz if you want to become one; we should probably think about more formal way of getting new people in.

* What about the new build flags [1], Now that Allan is not more the maintainer and that either Debian and Fedora enabled PIE on binutils sucessfully aparently, What will happend? Will it be enabled? What about the other flags?

The issue has been fixed upstream; as noted previously I will handle this when time allows. This will definitely happen sooner than later, probably in May. Bartłomiej