Bugday 2020-06-06

Topic 1: Add or improve documentation here on the wiki
Important because: The wiki is an important documentation platform for Gentoo. We exchange our knowledge there, but the wiki needs also some care.


 * Requested articles - Articles about things our community would like to know more about, but haven't been written yet.
 * Contribute to articles in the Todo category:
 * Dirty - Clean up 'dirty' articles by improving grammar, punctuation, or clarity.
 * Outdated articles - Bring outdated articles up to speed on current practices.
 * Stub - Fill stub articles with appropriate content.
 * Misused templates - Fix misused templates.
 * Wikify articles - Add proper formatting to articles that need wikification.
 * Todo articles - Cross off itemized tasks that need action.
 * Suggestions - Suggest wiki maintainers to make a wiki-wide change.
 * Our wiki article about the Ryzen CPUs in Gentoo is important for many users, and needs some care.

Resources

 * #gentoo-bugday
 * #gentoo-wiki
 * all Wiki templates Wiki cheat sheet

Topic 2: Patches for packages failing with -fno-common
Important because: This bug blocks the upgrade to gcc-10

How to find packages with this bug?

 * Many packages are linked to the bug tracker ticket

How to fix this bug?

 * First, check, if there is a patch upstream already
 * Write a patch, send it upstream and link it in the bug of the package.
 * gcc-10 porting notes about fno_common

I still do not know how to start. Could you provide an example workflow?
Larry wants to fix one of his favourite packages.


 * Larry picks one package in
 * net-misc/networkmanager: Fails to compile with -fno-common
 * check upstream, if there is a fix already, if so, decide if a patch or a version bump makes more sense.
 * write a patch, copy it to /etc/portage/patches/net-misc/networkmanager and test it
 * report upstream and link the bugticket in bugzilla

Resources

 * #gentoo-bugday
 * #gentoo-dev-help