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diff --git a/_posts/2023-02-09-new-year.md b/_posts/2023-02-09-new-year.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9887ec9 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2023-02-09-new-year.md @@ -0,0 +1,245 @@ +--- +title: '2022 in retrospect & late happy new year 2023!' +--- + +<img align="right" height="140" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/2023.png" alt="Gentoo Fireworks"> +A quite late Happy New Year 2023 to all of you! + +Once again with 2022 an eventful year has passed, and Gentoo is still alive and kicking! +2023 already started some time ago and some of us have even already been +meeting up and networking at [FOSDEM 2023](https://www.fosdem.org/). Still, we are +happy to present once more a review of the Gentoo news of the past year 2022. +<a href="https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/02/05/new-year.html">Read on</a> +for new developers, distribution wide initiatives and improvements, +up-to-date numbers on Gentoo development, tales from the infrastructure, and +all the fresh new packages you can emerge now. + +<!--more--> + +## Gentoo in numbers + +**The number of commits to the [main ::gentoo repository](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/) +has remained at high level in 2022**, from *126920* to *126682*. +This is also true for the number of commits by external contributors, *10492*, +now across an even increased *440* unique external authors compared to *435* last +year. + +**[GURU, our user-curated repository with a trusted user +model](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU), is clearly growing further.** +We have had *5761* commits in 2022, up by 12% from *5131* in 2021. +The number of contributors to GURU has increased similarly, from *125* in +2021 to *144* in 2022. Please join us there and help packaging the latest and +greatest software. That's the ideal preparation for becoming a full Gentoo developer! + +On **the [Gentoo bugtracker bugs.gentoo.org](https://bugs.gentoo.org/)**, both the number +of reported and of resolved bugs has increased clearly. We've had *26362* bug reports +created in 2022, compared to *24056* in 2021. The number of resolved bugs shows a similar +trend, with *24499* in 2022 compared to *24076* in 2021. + +## New developers + +In 2022 we have gained **four new Gentoo developers**. They are in chronological order: + +1. **[Matthew Smith (matthew)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Matthew)**: + <img align="right" height="45" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/5df093f70a89cc4b0a75fc9fa2f09282?s=45&d=retro"> + Matthew [joined us](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/a9a6afeb59912fc10fba81236fe63d27) + already in February from the North East of England. By trade embedded software developer, he helps with + a diverse set of packages, from *mold* to *erlang* and from *nasm* to *tree-sitter*. + +2. **[WANG Xuerui (xen0n)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Xen0n)**: + <img align="right" height="45" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/389c00ed2836b82b8511ecfbdc919d7d?s=45&d=retro"> + A long-time Gentoo user, Xuerui [joined us](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/197003f97ecc5db5e1c31e8e3bb9e87f) as a developer in March from Shanghai, China. + He jumped in right into the deep end, bringing LoongArch support to Gentoo as well + as lots of toolchain and qemu expertise (as long as his cat lets him). + +3. **[Kenton Groombridge (concord)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Concord)**: + <img align="right" height="45" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a89c24304a741760b9bacaf72d229b85?s=45&d=retro"> + Kenton comes from the US and from a real Gentoo family (yes, such a thing exists!); he + [joined up](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/c4525079ae7cccf0879fd0b271dac351) in May. + His speciality is Gentoo Hardened and SELinux, and he has already collected quite some + commits there! + +4. **[Viorel Munteanu (ceamac)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Viorel)**: + <img align="right" height="45" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e89fc0d770308b760ce79003a1bffcdd?s=45&d=retro"> + In November, Viorel [joined us](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/fc8ade4478ff3c1c5258cde9e856b172) from + Bucharest, Romania. He's active in the virtualization and proxy maintainers teams, + and takes care of the VirtualBox stack and, e.g., TigerVNC. + + +## Featured changes and news + +Let's now look at the major improvements and news of 2022 in Gentoo. + +### Distribution-wide Initiatives + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/memory-stick.png"> + <b>LiveGUI Gentoo ISO download</b>: For an instant, full-fledged Gentoo experience we now have + a weekly-built 3.7GByte [amd64 LiveGUI ISO](https://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/root/all/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-livegui-amd64/) + ready for download. It is suitable for booting from DVDs or USB sticks, and boots into a full + [KDE Plasma desktop](https://kde.org/de/plasma-desktop/) based on stable Gentoo. A ton of ready-to-use + software is included, from dozens of system + utilities, [LibreOffice](https://www.libreoffice.org/), [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/), + and [TeXLive](https://www.tug.org/texlive/) all the way to [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) + and [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home/). Also, all build dependencies are installed and you + can emerge additional packages as you like! + +- **[Modern C porting](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Modern_C_porting)**: + This recent cross-distribution initiative has as its objective to port as much open source + software as possible to modern C standards. Upcoming versions of GCC and Clang will eventually + lose support for constructs that have been deprecated for decades, and we will have to be + prepared for that. Together with [Fedora](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PortingToModernC) + we have taken the lead here, and a lot of effort has already gone into fixing and modernization. + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/logo-llvm.png"> + **[Clang / LLVM](https://llvm.org/) as primary system compiler**: + Closely related, support for using Clang as the primary system compiler in Gentoo has never + been better than now. For the most popular architectures, we have LLVM stages available which + replace the GNU toolchain as far as possible (also using libc++, compiler-rc, lld, ...) + While glibc at the moment still requires GCC to build, the LLVM/musl stages come fully without + GNU toolchain. + +- <b>New binary package format *gpkg*</b>: + Gentoo's package manager Portage now supports a new binary package format defined in + [GLEP 78](https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0078.html). Besides many minor improvements, + the most important new feature of the file format is that it fully supports cryptographic + signing of packages. This was one of the most important roadblocks for more extensive binary + package support in Gentoo. + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/logo-systemd.png"> + **merged-usr profiles and systemd merged-usr stages**: + All systemd profiles have now gained a merged-usr subprofile, corresponding to a + filesystem layout where, e.g., /bin is a symbolic link to /usr/bin. The migration + procedure has been described in detail in a [news item](https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-01-systemd-usrmerge.html). + With this, we prepare for the time when systemd will only support the merged-usr + layout anymore, as already [announced by the upstream developers](https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-September/048352.html). + Across all architectures, we also now consistently offer in addition to openrc downloads + systemd stages with and without merged-usr layout. Merged-usr openrc stages will follow + for completeness. + +### Architectures + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/loong.jpg"> + **LoongArch64**: + In the meantime, [LoongArch64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch), + a Chinese development by Loongson Co. based in parts on MIPS and on RISC-V, has become a + fully supported [Gentoo architecture](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LoongArch), + with toolchain support, widespread keywording, and up-to-date stages for download. + First server-type chipsets based on these chips are currently being sold. + (Outside mainland China hardware is difficult to obtain though.) + +- **AArch64**: An exotic variant of AArch64 (arm64) has been added to our download portfolio: + Big-endian AArch64. Enjoy! + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/logo-parisc.png"> + **PA-RISC**: + Weekly stage builds for the hppa architecture (PA-RISC) are back, including systemd images + for both hppa-1.1 and hppa-2.0 and an installation CD. + +- **MIPS**: The weekly builds for MIPS are back as well! Here, we can now offer downloads + for the o32, n32, and n64 ABI plus multilib stages - and all that for both endianness + variants and init systems. No matter what your hardware is, you should find a starting + point. + +- **Hardened**: With more and more hardening becoming de-facto standard, the compiler + settings in the hardened profiles have been tightened again + to include additional experimental switches. In particular, in Gentoo Hardened, gcc + and clang both now default to *_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3* and enabled *stack-clash-protection*. + +### Packages + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/logo-java.png"> + **Modern Java**: + A huge amount of work was done by our Java project to revive the language ecosystem + and in particular recent Java versions in Gentoo. Additionally, OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17 were + bootstrapped for big-endian ppc64, as well as for x86, riscv, and arm64 with musl as C library, enabling + the usage of modern Java on those configurations. + +- **GNU Emacs**: + Emacs *ebuild-mode* has seen a flurry of activity in 2022. New features include + a new *ebuild-repo-mode*, inserting of user's name and date stamp in package.mask and friends, + support for *pkgdev and pkgcheck commands*, support for colors in ebuild command output, + and a major refactoring of the code for *keyword highlighting*. + Additionally, there's [flycheck-pkgcheck](https://xgqt.gitlab.io/blog/20220806-pkgcheck-flycheck.html) + for on-the-fly linting and + [company-ebuild](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-emacs/company-ebuild) + for automatic completion. + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/logo-coq.png"> + **Mathematics**: The *sci-mathematics* category has grown with the addition of + theorem provers such as *lean*, *yices2*, *cadabra*, or *picosat*. + Further, the Coq Proof Assistant ecosystem support has been improved with new + [Coq](https://coq.inria.fr/) versions, Emacs support via company-coq, and packages + such as *coq-mathcomp*, *coq-serapi*, *flocq*, *gappalib-coq* ... + +- **Alternatives**: + Many base system utilities exist in different flavours that are more or less drop-in + replacements. One example of this is the compressor *bzip2*, with *lbzip2* and *pbzip2* as + parallelizing alternatives; another *tar*, which exists both as *gtar* (GNU tar) and as + *bsdtar* in libarchive. With [alternatives](https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-27-alternatives-introduction.html) + we now have a clean system in place to use either of these options as default program + via a symlinked binary. + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/logo-racket.png"> + **Racket**: An [ongoing project](https://gentoo-racket.gitlab.io/About.html) aims to bring + first-class support for [Racket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)), + a modern dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme, and the Racket language ecosystem to Gentoo. + +- <b><a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python">Python</a>:</b> + In the meantime the default Python version in Gentoo has reached Python 3.10. Additionally we have + also Python 3.11 available stable, which means we're fully up to date with upstream. + Gentoo testing provides the alpha releases of Phython 3.12, so we can easily prepare for + what comes next. + +### Physical and Software Infrastructure + +- **Hardware**: Our infrastructure team has set up two beefy new servers as [Ganeti](https://ganeti.org/) + nodes hosted at [OSUOSL](https://osuosl.org/), with 2x AMD EPYC 7543, 1TiB RAM, 22TiB NVME, and 25Gbit networking each. + These will provide virtual machines for various services in the future. A new 1/10/25Gbit switch was also added + to better support new and existing servers. + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/logo-gitlab.png"> + **Gitlab**: + We are now running an experimental self-hosted [Gitlab](https://about.gitlab.com/) + instance, [gitlab.gentoo.org](https://gitlab.gentoo.org/). It will slowly take over and serve more and + more git repositories. + +- **Pkgcore**: + Building on existing coding efforts, an official [Gentoo PkgCore project](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PkgCore) + was created to improve this set of [QA and commit tools](https://pkgcore.github.io/pkgcore/) + for Gentoo developers. Repoman was deprecated and removed from the Portage code base, and + pkgcheck, part of PkgCore, has become the official QA tool for commits to the main Gentoo + repository. It is also the code running our automated continuous integration system. + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/tattoo.jpg"> + **Tattoo**: The new *tattoo* arch testing system now manages and automates large parts of + the architecture testing process. This has simplified and streamlined the stabilization process, + shortening developer response times and "saving" arch stabilization. + +- **Devmanual**: The [Gentoo Development Manual](https://devmanual.gentoo.org/) has seen major + improvements in 2022. More documentation is good! + +### Finances of the Gentoo Foundation + +- <img align="right" height="75" style="margin-left: 30px;" src="https://www.gentoo.org/assets/img/news/2023/dollar.jpg"> + **Income**: The Gentoo Foundation took in approximately $16,500 in fiscal year 2022; + the majority (over 90%) were individual cash donations from the community. + +- **Expenses**: Our expenses in 2022 were, as split into the usual three categories, + *operating expenses* (for services, fees, ...) $11,000, *capital expenses* (for bought + assets) $55,000 (servers, networking gear, SSDs, ...), and *depreciation expenses* + (value loss of existing assets) $9,500. + +- **Balance**: We have about $97,000 in the bank as of July 1, 2022 (which is when + our fiscal year 2022 ends for accounting purposes). The draft finanical report + for 2022 is [available on the Gentoo Wiki](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Gentoo_Foundation_Finances_FY2022). + +## Thank you! + +Our end of year review of course cannot cover everything that happened in Gentoo in 2022 +in detail, and if you look closely you will find much more. +**We would like to thank all Gentoo developers and all who have submitted contributions +for their relentless everyday Gentoo work.** As a volunteer project, Gentoo could not exist +without them. + +And now let's look forward to the new year 2023, with hopefully less unpleasant surprises +than the last one! |