Hi, everyone. My time for Gentoo is quite limited right now (you gotta start working for money at some point :)), and the little time I have I'm trying to use for the Gentoo work I consider most important. This sadly means that many of my past tools are earning their share of bitrot and would really use a new contributors, or possibly even full-time upstream maintainers :).
Here's a long list of projects along with short description, their state and planned TODO items that I won't have time to implement anytime soon. app-admin/eclean-kernel The tool to clean up old kernels. A bit controversial in the end because /boot is a mess. status: works with some /boot layouts, fails hard on some, has some known bugs/requests TODO: - figure out how it sanely could work, - support /boot shared between multiple systems, - support BootloaderSpec (maybe), - clean up the code, possibly rewrite in something saner than Python (C++?). app-cdr/mirage2iso Quite an old tool to convert various image formats to .iso using libMirage. status: working, no known bugs, may use a little cleanup TODO: - support selecting track to read (right now it reads first supported one), - support extracting multiple tracks (sessions) -- options to pass track list and output filename pattern, - support converting to .bin + .toc/.cue, - support for more track types (right now, Mode 1 & Mode 2 form 1 are supported), - support for audio tracks (how? external converter? a library?). app-portage/cpuinfo2cpuflags The tool to get CPU_FLAGS_X86 for your system :). Not really abandoned but I have some TODO items I won't be able to do soon. status: working, no known bugs TODO: - replace /proc/cpuinfo parsing with CPUID assembly/intrinsics -- support more kernels than just Linux, - possibly extend to non-x86 arches. app-portage/diffmask A tool to maintain package group unmasks in sync, and clean up stale unmasks. Quite specific since it requires unmasks to be copied exactly from mask file. status: quite working, not exactly proud of the design No real TODO items but it would be nice to think a bit about the design and figure out if we couldn't do something more user- friendly (i.e. not being that strictly bound to package.mask). app-portage/flaggie The package.use (& make.conf) flag management tool. Pretty high priority. status: rather working, has a few bugs, certainly would use some new Portage features TODO: - remove make.conf editing support (it's very complex and broken -- can eat random '$' from the file in some cases), - therefore: edit global flags via '*/*' entries in package.use, - support writing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND in package.use, - support parsing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND on command-line (i.e. 'flaggie libfoo VIDEO_CARDS: +radeon -nvidia'), - remove implicit '*' expansion in package names and flag names -- package.use can handle '*', so leave it as is and just expand it when checking if the flags are supported, - possibly clean up package.use writer (or rewrite it since I'm no longer able to figure out how it works exactly :)). app-portage/gentoopm A wrapper providing nice API to all three Package Managers. Used by gpyutils, smart-live-rebuild... status: stuck in EAPI 4 era, might have some hidden bugs TODO: - add APIs for EAPI 5 -- but this requires Package Manager APIs first, - maybe some cleanup. app-portage/install-mask A tool to update INSTALL_MASK in make.conf using well-known file groups. Uses make.conf manipulation code from flaggie. status: working, make.conf manipulation broken as in flaggie TODO: - the tool should be killed, and INSTALL_MASK group support should be moved into Portage :). Alike: INSTALL_MASK="@systemd @locale -@locale_pl" with matches being applied sequentially, and groups being defined in $repo/metadata/install-mask.conf [and masters]. app-portage/pms-test-suite A GSoC project and as such, totally abandoned. Not sure if anybody really cares these days. status: stuck in EAPI 4 era, waiting for EAPI 5 in gentoopm... TODO: - support EAPI 5, - find some use for it? dev-util/atomic-install A nice one -- tool to quasi-atomically install files from $D to live system. The idea is to replace live files as fast as possible, and quickly revert that if it fails in the middle. Never finished but nevertheless a good idea :). If someone's up for it, I'd love to see it working one day. status: never reached 'fully working' state How it was supposed to work (and mostly works): - writes 'journal' synchronously with file lists and current status, - copies (CoWs, hardlinks) files from $D to live system renaming them to .${filename}.NEW.${random-id-from-journal}, - copies (CoWs, hardlinks) existing files in live system to backups as .${filename}.OLD.${random-id-from-journal}, - does a quick rename() run to replace files in live system to .NEW variants, - if all goes fine, removes .OLD files and the journal, - if it fails, does a quick rename() run to replace files in live system back with .OLD variants and cleans up copies afterwards, - possibly: use some fancy btrfs features :). sys-apps/uam The udev-based automounter. Used by a lot of people who don't like udisks, and also on some non-Gentoo distros. status: working, one known bug :) No real TODO items. I simply don't use it anymore, so I can't handle bugs properly :). www-servers/pshs A simple HTTP(s) server using libevent to share files passed on command-line. This one I'll probably keep maintaining, yet there are some features I'd love to see patches for :). status: working, there's some problem with UPnP on my system TODO: - figure out why it longer figures out the external IP via UPnP (maybe libminiupnpc API change), - support HTTP authentication, - support uploading files (via upload form), - support recursive directory sharing, - awesome, pretty ncurses output with progressbars on active downloads using background color (like aptitude), - think of more fun features to support! x11-libs/libtinynotify* x11-misc/sw-notify-send x11-misc/tinynotify-send A 'more lightweight' library to send notification-daemon notifications. Its cool feature is support for pseudo-systemwide notifications -- if you give it root privileges, it's going to look hard for active D-Bus sessions and try to send notifications to all of them! status: works, didn't see a change in a long time TODO: - figure out if there's anything to do :), - maybe improve the systemwide API -- right now it's rather dumb. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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