About portage: Current status: The portage project is mostly fine, though we've missed my original plan to release the first 2.2 test versions last year, mostly because of lack of time on my part. I hope we can fix that within the next two or three months. As Paul has already mentioned, the tools-portage subproject definitely needs more people, or we may just dissolve it completely (it has been a one man show for some time already). Some people to help with (technical) documentation would also be useful (manpages, docbook stuff, ...)
Plans: - release test versions of portage-2.2, see how all the new stuff works in practice and adjust things if necessary - help to fix external tools (including gentoolkit) and documentation to fully support portage-2.2 - some ideas for the time after 2.2: * merge gentoolkit into portage * redesign some of the old APIs (dbapi, config) and implement new ones (query framework) * replace revdep-rebuild with a package set * implement a new installed-package database * new dep resolver (as always ;) * new user interface(s) * ... Marius -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
