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Ping email sent on 10th May, forgot to update bug.
Hey folks, Sorry for being unresponsive for so long. I'd love to continue proxy-maintaining, but it's clear I just don't have the time to make the commitment right now, with everything else I've got going on with Asahi Linux. I have too much of an email backlog and can't seem to ever clear it up these days. I'm happy to continue sending PRs as I run into issues and fixing things myself when they affect me, but even my own Gentoo machine updates have been lagging behind my usual schedule so I can't promise timely updates on that front either. More specifically: * media-libs/aribb24 I don't really use this on Gentoo systems these days (my HTPC used to be a big shared Gentoo box but ended up split off into a small Arch system a couple years ago). I hope it sticks around since it's supported in VLC, and I do use it once in a while, but not enough to really be on top of things. Hopefully it's low-maintenance though. Upstream seems quite dead so I suspect Videolan will probably have to take over maintainership of upstream anyway, sooner or later, which is a more pressing issue than the downstream Gentoo package. * media-libs/libffado I'm hoping to partially move away from this and towards the relevant kernel drivers and PipeWire, but things aren't there yet. Would still use it for the mixer UIs though, just not the JACK backend (which at least does make things easier re: dependencies in the long run, and is probably the future anyway once the kernel drivers are in equal or better shape). I'll keep fixing it as it breaks for me but can't promise timely updates. * media-sound/supercollider I briefly used this a bit and sent some build fixes upstream, but I'm not really a regular user so I can't promise much here any more. I was hoping to be more on top of audio stuff for Gentoo (also as part of the audio-overlay team), but that's all fallen on the back burner these days... Lately my audio-related contributions seem to mostly be throwing bug fixes directly at upstreams when I run into issues. In the future I expect to be spending more time on kernel/realtime/pipewire/etc upstream issues here, since I want to improve the situation for the overall ecosystem and I'm still very interested in Linux audio personally. Sorry for taking so long to reply and having to step down. Hope I can still send in random fixes as I run into them :) P.S. I do intend to move my main Gentoo dev machine over to arm64/Mac once enough things are in place and my local build infra is in shape, and will probably have a bunch of audio changes coming up at that point, here or upstream. I might even end up picking libffado proxy-maint back up at that point, and possibly even other packages including some of our own ARM64 Mac-related things. But it's probably best not to count on that right now, it'll happen when it does. On that front, if anyone on the official Gentoo dev side is interested in ARM Mac machine support (or even unofficially as an overlay), please *do* get in touch about that! I'm very happy to help folks navigate these machines and we're looking for distro contacts. There is some relatively simple integration needed to "support" them (since they don't quite work like typical systems), but it's fairly minimal for a roll-it-yourself distro like Gentoo.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c4e44a66a48b4d5a2f10659af2ae9389cb368ff6 commit c4e44a66a48b4d5a2f10659af2ae9389cb368ff6 Author: Matthew Smith <matthew@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-05-19 07:12:43 +0000 Commit: Matthew Smith <matthew@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-05-19 07:15:34 +0000 media-sound/supercollider: drop to maintainer-needed Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/632868 Signed-off-by: Matthew Smith <matthew@gentoo.org> media-sound/supercollider/metadata.xml | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
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Thank you for the very detailed reply! And yes, you can contribute even if you're not the maintainer of these packages. Contributions to maintainer-needed & proxy-maint packages (through Github) will be reviewed and merged by us, so those are definitely taken care of. Thanks for your work!
