I asked each member of the portage team (minus Marius, whom I did find on irc) what they were up to in terms of working on things. Zac informed me that 2.1.1 would be out of rc status on the 8th and that users could expect a few new features and many bugfixes.
>From the NEWS file in svn: * Profiles support use.force, package.use.force, and package.use.mask files. * New depclean algorithm is much safer than the old one. You can view the tracker bug[1] for bugfix information. Zac also informed me that glep 42 nearing the top of his list of "things to do." Simon Stelling reports that he is interested in breaking up ebuild.sh into more manageable and separate chunks in order for easy of maintenance. An idea has also popped up of pushing more of ebuild.sh's code into elib-esque bash libs that are pushed out via the tree; such that they can be modified easier by developers who can't/won't wait for releases. This eases portage maintenance as there is less code to debug and maintain (and less code to update). Jason Stubbs reported in; the new depclean implementation in 2.1.1 was contributed by him. He also states his plans to improve the resolver; but also notes real life takes precedence, so there is no time table presented for these improvements. Things to fix include better circular dependency support and using the installed database (vdb) in order to facilitate correct depgraph creation. Kito I could not find, news from devrel says he is on the "about to get retired list"; so kito if you are reading, heads up ;) With Kito gone, Exg is working on getting a diff of prefix vs trunk so he can import all these darned features and bugfixes; no one has done a merge in months. Ned Ludd is continuously improving portage-utils. I also hear some rumors of improved Binpkg support ( -K/-G and friends ) although I have no more information than that. Mike Frysinger is still fixing whitespace issues in ebuild.sh :) Marien Zwart has been without a network connection for a while; he has no plans for portage. He currently works on pkgcore with ferringb, although I imagine ferringb will pummel him into commiting some cpython listdir enhancements so that portage will run a bit faster. It all depends on how thick of a hide Marien has ;) I technically shouldn't count myself, but I've been working on GLEP 21. It's "close" to being done. I have more issues to work out with it though, so don't hold your breath. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136244 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
