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  • [gentoo-dev] GNOME needs a new maintainer in Gentoo

    From Matt Turner@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 20 16:40:01 2023
    Hello,

    Happy GNOME 45.0 release day!

    I've been maintaining the GNOME packages in Gentoo, essentially alone,
    since GNOME 3.38 (Sept 2020).

    After adding seven major versions of GNOME to Gentoo, I've decided to
    stop. So, the GNOME project needs a new maintainer. Preferably
    multiple.

    A quick accounting shows that I've done 1350 bumps of GNOME packages
    in the last 3 years (and reviewed and merged another 530 from
    Guillermo who has been contributing for only 1 year now). In upstream
    GNOME projects I've landed about 100 merge requests.

    IMO, the state of the project is really good. We've been adding
    alpha/beta/rc versions in order to catch and report problems to
    upstream and to give us time to sort out important issues beforehand.
    Most of GNOME 45 is already in ::gentoo under package.mask.

    When I forced myself into the GNOME team, there were a lot of bits of
    knowledge that were only accessible by being yelled at by the lead.
    I've tried to remedy that and to document important things to know. To
    that end, I've maintained a few pages on the Wiki:

    Somewhat of a guide for bumping GNOME packages: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GNOME/GNOME_Bumping_Guide

    Notes about why packages listed on packages.gentoo.org's Outdated page
    haven't been handled: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GNOME/GNOME_bumping_notes

    A table of unit testing results (from src_test) for GNOME packages: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GNOME/GNOME_Unit_Test_Status

    libsoup:3.0 transition status (mostly behiind us at this point) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GNOME/libsoup:3_transition

    I'll still be around, and I'm happy to help ramp up a developer that
    wants to take over. Guillermo has been doing great and has been an
    incredible help. I hope he'll become a Gentoo developer, but the
    project really needs more than a single person maintaining things.

    Matt

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  • From Matt Turner@21:1/5 to mattst88@gentoo.org on Fri Sep 22 06:10:01 2023
    On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:31 AM Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> wrote:
    IMO, the state of the project is really good. We've been adding
    alpha/beta/rc versions in order to catch and report problems to
    upstream and to give us time to sort out important issues beforehand.
    Most of GNOME 45 is already in ::gentoo under package.mask.

    Final update:

    - I've cleaned up the alpha/beta/rc versions and unmasked everything
    that had a stable release.

    - I filed a couple of rekeywording bugs where packages gained a new dependency.

    - I dropped sparc and ia64 keywords on a handful of GNOME packages
    that would have otherwise required rekeywording gui-libs/libadwaita, dev-libs/appstream, and some other things that didn't seem useful on
    these platforms.

    - I've dropped myself from the GNOME project and the mail alias.

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