[arch-general] [Questions] Questions from past project and ideas fomr -dev-public that get silence.

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski]

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

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