User:Mattst88

Mattst88
Name	Matt Turner
Nickname	mattst88
Email	mattst88@gentoo.org
PGP fingerprint	3BB6 39E5 6F86 1FA2 E865 0569 0FDD 682D 974C A72A
Blog	https://mattst88.com/blog/
Developer bug	310977
Is active	Yes
Projects	Alpha Development Lead Base System Catalyst Project Community Relations Gentoo Council Council member GNOME Desktop HPPA Development IA-64 Development MIPS Development Lead PowerPC Development Release Engineering Lead, Alpha/HPPA/IA64/MIPS/PPC/PPC64/SPARC/S390 Release Coordinator s390 Development SPARC Development Toolchain Project X11 Project Lead

Mattst88

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mattst88@gentoo.org

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Gentoo user since 2004

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My TODO list

Alpha

• aboot-2.0

Catalyst

• Switch IA64 ISO boot with sys-boot/grub—Done
• Switch SPARC ISO boot with sys-boot/grub—Done
• Switch SGI/MIPS ISO boot with sys-boot/grub
• Switch man pages away from app-text/asciidoc to something lighterweight bug #679374
  • Or just make building the documentation optional?
• Use squashfs images for porttree snapshots bug #274337—Done
  • Support handling arbitrary repos
• Fix kerncache—Done
• Switch to TOML for `.spec` files
• Consolidate stage[1-3] into a single catalyst invocation
  • Have catalyst understand which stages are just temporary, and don't compress them, etc
  • Use squashfs and mount in the next stage build using overlayfs
    • Use the 'volatile' mount option in v5.10+?
• Cross compiling support
  • Something with QEMU? bug #431214—Done
• Configure number of jobs/load-average in catalyst.conf—Done
  • Would allow specs to use the default `update_seed_command`
• Add some sanity checking to ensure that `pkgdir`, et al, set by catalyst match what portage is using
• Switch to pyproject.toml-based build system
• Overhaul the kernel building system
  • Simplify and allow only a single kernel sources package to be used (e.g. for all of the kernels on a LiveCD)
• Containerize catalyst and break the dependence on the host system's bootloader
• Use sys-apps/util-linux's Python libmount API instead of calling mount(8)—Done
• Run only the functions that need bind mounts inside a mount namespace—Done
  • Will prevent catalyst from accidentally deleting things outside of the chroot
• Remove the dependency on dev-python/pydecomp

MIPS

• Stabilize profiles

X11

• Make media-libs/libglvnd non-optional—Done