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[oi-dev] 2018.10 targets
Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
2018-09-28 08:41:12 UTC
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Hi, folks.

We are approaching October.
While I have limited time now, I want to coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).

We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.

1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 , https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state. So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into this.

2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes, it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.

3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 . Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard there were issues with new mate-terminal.
Michal, do you have some comments here?

4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll dig into this shortly.

Does somebody have another targets/comments?

Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".

Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
Till Wegmüller
2018-09-28 09:16:43 UTC
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Hi

My personal target would be to have saltstack packaged and some
tutorials written how to use it.

As for KVM Zones. If we modify IPKG Brand and inject the appropriate
permissions and devices it should work. Although I would prefer it being
a fork of Tribblixes Sparse Brand. Also have a look into kvmadm what it
does to prepare KVM in zone setup. It has that capability but i did not
manage to make it work.

Greetings
Till
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October.
While I have limited time now, I want to coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 , https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state. So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes, it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 . Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard there were issues with new mate-terminal.
Michal, do you have some comments here?
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll dig into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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Aurélien Larcher
2018-09-28 09:39:42 UTC
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:41 AM Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev <
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October.
While I have limited time now, I want to coordinate priorities and
targets, what should we do till end of October (and due to personal
reasons, I'd better announce snapshot till 20 October or earlier or allow
someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes
https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 ,
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm afraid
I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace itself doesn't
seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it is. In KVM Joyent fixed
this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox structures to store VM
registers differ and from brief overlook it has several asm functions to
store/restore Host/Base registers state. So far I don't have an idea how
convert one to another. So, this likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless
someone skillful dig into this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes, it
fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious issue,
because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 . Updated
GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our Nimbus theme
based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard there were issues with
new mate-terminal.
Michal, do you have some comments here?
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll dig
into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI
developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish feature A
before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Hi Alexander,
I'll be busy as well and my skills are not up to tasks #1 or #2... the only
tracks I can pursue for now are:
1) fixing pkg and gfx-drm components so that we can migrate userland to
gcc-8 before or after the snapshot.
2) pushing Firefox 60esr
3) updating Xorg to latest
4) fixing openmpi which has been broken before summer

If I have time to fix audacity then we can also update ffmpeg and vlc.
I had some fixes for drm/i915 but my Intel box died 4 months ago so this is
on hold until I can replace it.
Kind regards,

Aurélien
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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ken mays via oi-dev
2018-09-29 18:34:25 UTC
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- Virtualbox failure after FPU changes https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 , https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one,a. I reviewed it. Can work with their devs (as time permits).
- Nimbus theme GTK3
a. Nimbus conversion to GTK3 
- MATE 1.20a. Commit what works now. Update vte as time permits.

~K


On Friday, September 28, 2018, 2:40:06 AM PDT, Aurélien Larcher <***@gmail.com> wrote:



On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:41 AM Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev <oi-***@openindiana.org> wrote:

Hi, folks.

We are approaching October.
While I have limited time now, I want to coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).

We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.

1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 , https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state. So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into this.

2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes, it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.

3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 .  Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard there were issues with new mate-terminal.
Michal, do you have some comments here?

4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll dig into this shortly.

Does somebody have another targets/comments?

Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".


Hi Alexander,
I'll be busy as well and my skills are not up to tasks #1 or #2... the only tracks I can pursue for now are:
1) fixing pkg and gfx-drm components so that we can migrate userland to gcc-8 before or after the snapshot.
2) pushing Firefox 60esr
3) updating Xorg to latest
4) fixing openmpi which has been broken before summer

If I have time to fix audacity then we can also update ffmpeg and vlc.
I had some fixes for drm/i915 but my Intel box died 4 months ago so this is on hold until I can replace it.
Kind regards,

Aurélien
 

Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department



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Michal Nowak
2018-09-29 07:01:44 UTC
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Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October. While I have limited time now, I want to
coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of
October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot
till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes
https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 ,
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm
afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace
itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it
is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox
structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it
has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state.
So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this
likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into
this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes,
it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious
issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 .
Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our
Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard
there were issues with new mate-terminal. Michal, do you have some
comments here?
I run MATE 1.20 as seen in the PR and it works fine but:

(1) Nimbus theme. I stick to "Traditional" theme.

(2) Pluma text editor's text area blinks annoyingly. Might be an
Intel-only issue. Upstream issue reported.

(3) MATE Terminal requires new vte library which does not work for us.
From my investigation I noticed that some #ifdef __sun were removed
from newer vte. Also I haven't seen new vte for non-Linux OS (pkgsrc,
BSDs, ...).

I don't think I am able to do anything about those.
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll
dig into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
I will work on openQA tests for them to be in shape for the snapshot and
test the images once test-snapshot is available.

Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this.

Michal
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI
developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish
feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern
Federal University IT department
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https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
Aurélien Larcher
2018-09-29 16:19:43 UTC
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Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October. While I have limited time now, I want to
coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of
October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot
till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes
https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 ,
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm
afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace
itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it
is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox
structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it
has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state.
So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this
likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into
this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes,
it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious
issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 .
Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our
Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard
there were issues with new mate-terminal. Michal, do you have some
comments here?
(1) Nimbus theme. I stick to "Traditional" theme.
(2) Pluma text editor's text area blinks annoyingly. Might be an
Intel-only issue. Upstream issue reported.
(3) MATE Terminal requires new vte library which does not work for us.
From my investigation I noticed that some #ifdef __sun were removed
from newer vte. Also I haven't seen new vte for non-Linux OS (pkgsrc,
BSDs, ...).
I don't think I am able to do anything about those.
Which version does pkgsrc deliver? J. Perkin seems to have worked on MATE
1.20.
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll
dig into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
I will work on openQA tests for them to be in shape for the snapshot and
test the images once test-snapshot is available.
Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this.
I packaged Meson last year but this is a mess...
Need to implement the specificities of illumos systems all over again...
and the way it is structures looks like the usual entangled "if(totoOS) {}
else if (babarOS) else if (fooOS) {} etc...." all over the place.
First thing back then was to notice that GCC => GNU ld in their rules...
Post by Michal Nowak
Michal
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI
developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish
feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern
Federal University IT department
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Michal Nowak
2018-10-02 17:03:16 UTC
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Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October. While I have limited time now, I want to
coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of
October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot
till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes
https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 ,
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm
afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace
itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it
is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox
structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it
has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state.
So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this
likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into
this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes,
it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious
issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 .
Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our
Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard
there were issues with new mate-terminal. Michal, do you have some
comments here?
(1) Nimbus theme. I stick to "Traditional" theme.
(2) Pluma text editor's text area blinks annoyingly. Might be an
Intel-only issue. Upstream issue reported.
(3) MATE Terminal requires new vte library which does not work for us.
 From my investigation I noticed that some #ifdef __sun were removed
from newer vte. Also I haven't seen new vte for non-Linux OS (pkgsrc,
BSDs, ...).
I don't think I am able to do anything about those.
Which version does pkgsrc deliver? J. Perkin seems to have worked on
MATE 1.20.
Thanks for pointing that out, Aurélien! Indeed Jonathan ported it to
__sun: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/x11/vte3. I'll have a
look at it.
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll
dig into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
I will work on openQA tests for them to be in shape for the snapshot and
test the images once test-snapshot is available.
Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this.
I packaged Meson last year but this is a mess...
Need to implement the specificities of illumos systems all over again...
and the way it is structures looks like the usual entangled "if(totoOS)
{} else if (babarOS) else if (fooOS) {} etc...." all over the place.
First thing back then was to notice that GCC => GNU ld in their rules...
I didn't get even that far, but it's noticeable from OS/HW detection
that Meson has Linux in mind.

Michal
Post by Michal Nowak
Michal
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI
developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish
feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern
Federal University IT department
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2018-10-02 17:25:10 UTC
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Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October. While I have limited time now, I want
to
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of
October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot
till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes
https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 ,
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm
afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace
itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it
is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but
Virtualbox
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it
has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers
state.
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this
likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into
this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI
changes,
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a
serious
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 .
Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so
our
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard
there were issues with new mate-terminal. Michal, do you have some
comments here?
(1) Nimbus theme. I stick to "Traditional" theme.
(2) Pluma text editor's text area blinks annoyingly. Might be an
Intel-only issue. Upstream issue reported.
(3) MATE Terminal requires new vte library which does not work for
us.
Post by Michal Nowak
From my investigation I noticed that some #ifdef __sun were removed
from newer vte. Also I haven't seen new vte for non-Linux OS (pkgsrc,
BSDs, ...).
I don't think I am able to do anything about those.
Which version does pkgsrc deliver? J. Perkin seems to have worked on
MATE 1.20.
Thanks for pointing that out, Aurélien! Indeed Jonathan ported it to
__sun: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/x11/vte3. I'll have a
look at it.
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps,
I'll
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
dig into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
I will work on openQA tests for them to be in shape for the snapshot and
test the images once test-snapshot is available.
Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this.
I packaged Meson last year but this is a mess...
Need to implement the specificities of illumos systems all over again...
and the way it is structures looks like the usual entangled "if(totoOS)
{} else if (babarOS) else if (fooOS) {} etc...." all over the place.
First thing back then was to notice that GCC => GNU ld in their rules...
I didn't get even that far, but it's noticeable from OS/HW detection
that Meson has Linux in mind.
I am not sure I still have that work from last year... I am not really
motivated in reinventing the wheel unless it is necessary... :S
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Michal
Post by Michal Nowak
Michal
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear
OI
Post by Michal Nowak
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish
feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern
Federal University IT department
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2018-10-08 17:32:54 UTC
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Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October. While I have limited time now, I want to
coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of
October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot
till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes
https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 ,
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm
afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace
itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it
is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox
structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it
has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state.
So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this
likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into
this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes,
it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious
issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 .
Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our
Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard
there were issues with new mate-terminal. Michal, do you have some
comments here?
(1) Nimbus theme. I stick to "Traditional" theme.
(2) Pluma text editor's text area blinks annoyingly. Might be an
Intel-only issue. Upstream issue reported.
(3) MATE Terminal requires new vte library which does not work for us.
From my investigation I noticed that some #ifdef __sun were removed
from newer vte. Also I haven't seen new vte for non-Linux OS (pkgsrc,
BSDs, ...).
(3) is now resolved in my mate_1.20 branch. It's also updated to the
latest MATE 1.20 code stream. The missing piece is chopping the huge PR
to pieces our builder can actually consume.
Post by Michal Nowak
I don't think I am able to do anything about those.
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll
dig into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
I will work on openQA tests for them to be in shape for the snapshot and
test the images once test-snapshot is available.
I run a test build on Sunday and with some fixes and tweaking our openQA
tests are ready:
https://openqa.oi.mnowak.cz/tests/overview?distri=openindiana&version=hipster&build=20181006&groupid=1.

This time around I am not scheduling VirtualBox jobs as keeping them
alive was too much pain.

Michal
Post by Michal Nowak
Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this.
Michal
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI
developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish
feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern
Federal University IT department
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The SMB 2.1 client might be able to make that, depending on how long
and how much people beat me up about the code that's up for review :)
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 4:41 AM Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Post by Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev
Hi, folks.
We are approaching October.
While I have limited time now, I want to coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this).
We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to fix.
1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 , https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state. So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into this.
2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes, it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader.
3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 . Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard there were issues with new mate-terminal.
Michal, do you have some comments here?
4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll dig into this shortly.
Does somebody have another targets/comments?
Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that".
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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