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Gentoo is going strong however, and we -are happy to present once more our review of the events of the last 12 months. -Read on -for new developers, exciting changes and improvements, and up-to-date numbers -on Gentoo development. - - - - -## Gentoo in numbers - - -**The number of commits to the [main ::gentoo repository](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/) -has once more clearly grown in 2021**, from *104507* to *126920*, i.e., -by 21%. While the number of commits by external contributors, *11775*, has remained -roughly constant, this number now distributes across *435* unique external authors -compared to *391* last year. We may have recruited some of the top contributors. ;) - -**Contributions to [GURU, our user-curated repository with a trusted user -model](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU), have increased enormously.** We count -*4702* commits, up by 73% from *2725* in 2020. The number of contributors has -grown even more, to *119*, up by 116% from *55* in 2020. Please join us there and help -packaging the latest and greatest software! - -On **[our bugtracker bugs.gentoo.org](https://bugs.gentoo.org/)**, the number of new bug reports decreased slightly, with -*24056* bugs opened in 2021, compared to *25500* in 2020. However, more reports were -closed this year, with *24076* bugs resolved in 2021, compared to *23500* in 2020. -The ongoing tinderbox efforts as well as the overall high level of activity seem to be paying off! - - -## New developers - - -In the past year 2021 we have gained an outstanding number of **seven new Gentoo developers**, -much more than in recent years. In chronological order: - -1. **[John Helmert III (ajak)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ajak)** - - - John was the first one to [join in February](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/4088d2ee364814127c2bb0f630d51e4d). He's focusing - on the never-ending security work, wrangling bugs and issuing GLSAs, but also on developing the internal applications and infrastructure of the - security team. We will hopefully have a fresh new GLSAmaker soon! - -2. **[Andrew Ammerlaan (andrewammerlaan)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:AndrewAmmerlaan)** - - - Andrew [signed up in May](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/b9c2ec909212fc3c8bc88c4d10949d78) - and is well known for working on our scientific software stack (specifically physics and electronics), and also handling - user contributions for both the Gentoo repository and the sci overlay. Beyond this he active in the GURU team and also - in Python packaging. - -3. **[Ionen Wolkens (ionen)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ionen)** - - - Ionen [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/158d8d7c0737c9a07ad8537b5b7f55d0) - and by now is active in many corners of Gentoo. His specific focus area, however, is games, games, games! - In addition, he has also taken over one of our somewhat "special fun" packages, nvidia-drivers, and is the - author of [a whole set of development tools](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-portage/iwdevtools) ... - -4. **[Florian Schmaus (flow)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Flow)** - - - Also having [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/3806eb498e53f00c9851a0835ef59362), - Florian is busy with Java support, co-administrating the GURU overlay, and the - proxy maintenance team. In addition he contributes to Erlang packaging - one of the more exotic programming - languages present in Gentoo. - -5. **[Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Arthurzam)** - - - Next, [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bdd3eff9c70806cb9748c908306fdcd3), came - Arthur. He's contributing a lot to our Python team, keeping the large number of - Python packages maintained there up-to-date. In addition, he recently joined several architecture teams, so we - can keep offering Gentoo for highly diverse hardware. - -6. **[Jakov Smolić (jsmolic)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Jsmolic)** - - - Our second new recruit [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/6b1c3d06be26877d295121a1fca742d0) - was Jakov. Master of odd jobs, he's fixing bugs across the gentoo tree, solving - QA problems, and also weeding out old packages. Last but not least, he has also joined our - recently renewed architecture team efforts. - -7. **[Maciej Barć (xgqt)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Xgqt)** - - - Finally, [November](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bff150221efaf417a83271af07ef71c1) - brought us Maciej. He's coming from the mathematics corner, and consequently his areas - of specialization are scientific and in particular mathematical packages, Scheme, but also, for - example, OCamML. - -
-[Very sad news reached us in February.](https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/02/12/in-memory-of-kent-kentnl-fredric.html) -**Kent Fredric (kentnl)**, a driving force behind our Perl and Rust efforts, died in -a drowning accident - just when he had moved to Florida to start a new phase in his life. -We will all remember his enthusiasm, helpfulness and love for detail, and wish his family -all the best. - - -
-## Featured changes - -Let's look at the major changes and improvements of 2021 in Gentoo now. - - -### Packages - -- - Musl: - Stage 3 tarballs for the alternative libc musl are now built using the - main Gentoo repository only and have been published for several more arches and - configurations. Work is ongoing to import more musl-related fixes and support patches - from the musl overlay, with the objective that musl-based installations - eventually work out-of-the-box in Gentoo. - -- **libxcrypt:** GNU glibc based installations have this year migrated from the deprecated internal - crypt support to the external, new [libxcrypt](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-libs/libxcrypt). - With this we follow several other distributions; we gain modern algorithm support for one-way - hashing of passwords and much easier bugfixing outside the glibc release cycle. - -- [**ROCm:** the AMD open software platform for high performance / hyperscale GPU - computing](https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/) is now **fully packaged in - Gentoo**, thanks to a [contribution](https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/#/org/prodetail/210160212?lang=en) - within the [Summer 2021 Open Source Promotion Plan OSPP](https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/#/?lang=en) of - the [Chinese Academy of Sciences](http://english.is.cas.cn/) and the [openEuler - community](https://www.openeuler.org/en/). Stay tuned for ROCm-enabled applications from Gentoo, such - as Numba, CuPy, [TensorFlow](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sci-libs/tensorflow), and PyTorch. - -- - Python: - In the meantime the default Python version in Gentoo has reached Python 3.9. Additionally we have - also Python 3.10 available stable, which means we're fully up to date with upstream, and - our Python has gained support for link-time and profile-guided optimization (LTO and PGO) - during compilation. - -- **[Themes Project](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Themes):** The - Themes Project was created to maintain X11 themes and to unify their structure. - -- **Stable but up-to-date:** As examples of the fast pace of Gentoo, our stable set - contains among other things gcc 11.2, glibc 2.33, binutils 2.37, LibreOffice 7.1.7, KDE Frameworks 5.88, - Plasma 5.23.4, Gear 21.08.3, GNOME 40, and [many more packages](https://packages.gentoo.org/). If you want to go - bleeding edge, then the very latest code releases are often available as testing packages. - - -### Architectures - -- - [PPC64](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PowerPC): The PowerPC profiles and downloads have - seen significant updates and enhancements. Several new ppc64 little-endian profiles (desktop, - Gnome, ...) have been added to the Gentoo repository. Our weekly updated downloads now include - little-endian stages optimized for the POWER9 CPU series, and big- and little-endian hardened musl - stage files. - -- - RISC-V: - Support for RISC-V has improved enormously over the past year. Modern desktop environments such as - KDE Plasma, Gnome, but also Lxde, Xfce4, and Enlightenment are fully available, as are other - packages ranging from Rust to ZFS. Many more are in preparation. Gentoo is running nicely and - is actively used on many of the first physical RISC-V systems. [Stage files - are now published weekly](https://gentoo.osuosl.org//releases/riscv/autobuilds/) for - all supported ABI in both systemd and OpenRC variants. We have adapted the library directory paths to - those used by other distributions for better binary compatibility. - -- **[M68k](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:M68k): - Gentoo on Motorola 68000 is back!** We have regularly updated stages for download again, - and keywording of packages is ongoing. - -- **LoongArch64**: - While this is not an official Gentoo project yet, we have already received first code contributions - for Gentoo on [LoongArch64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch), a Chinese development - originally based on MIPS. - - -### Infrastructure - -- Release Engineering: This year brought big - updates of our build hardware as well as improvements in [Catalyst](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Catalyst). - A new AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core machine at Hetzner now handles our builds for *amd64*, *x86*, - *alpha*, *m68k*, and *riscv* (the latter via [qemu](https://www.qemu.org/)); a new ARM64 Ampere Neoverse-N1 80-core - machine provided by [Equinix](https://www.equinix.com/) through the [Works On Arm program](https://www.worksonarm.com/) - handles *arm64* and *arm*; and two 16-core POWER9 machines provided by [OSUOSL POWER Development - Hosting](https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/) handle *ppc64* and *ppc*. - This means we have had the capacity to add a [large variety of builds](https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/), from openrc and systemd variants - to musl-based builds whereever possible. - -- HPPA: We have received a donation of a fast HP - Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) machine! It will be set up during the new year and significantly help both - hppa stabilization / keywording efforts and the release engineering builds. - -- Internal modernization: Our infrastructure team has [completed two important internal - milestones](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/838748f70f5794a0a2c50c359462e4b7): - the migration from 15 years of cfengine-2 configuration management to - [puppet](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-admin/puppet), and the update of a - roughly 10 years old ganeti-2 cluster to a recent ganeti version. Both steps will help a lot - with managing our servers. - - -### Other news - -- **[GKernelCI](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gkernelci), the Gentoo kernel testing system - (see also its [dashboard page](https://gkernelci.gentoo.org)), reached its - [v2.0 milestone](https://github.com/GKernelCI/Gdocker/releases/tag/v2.0).** - New features include full docker integration, the addition of many more (currently only emulated) - architectures, and the automated sending of test results to [KernelCI](https://kernelci.org/) using KCIDB. - -- **Online Gentoo workshops: A series of online workshops in German language started in 2021.** - The meetings take place in BBB every 2 months on the 3rd Saturday of the - month. The events have been very well received, and we also want to provide workshops in - English starting on 2022-02-19. All events are listed on [https://gentoo-ev.org/](https://gentoo-ev.org/). - -- - **The move to [Libera Chat](https://libera.chat/):** After major changes in the governance of Freenode IRC, **Gentoo - and many other open source projects moved their IRC presence to [Libera Chat](https://libera.chat/).** This new - IRC network, founded by former Freenode staffers, has in the meantime become the de-facto replacement of Freenode; - we can certainly say that we feel very welcome and at home there and have a very strong presence with over 100 - Gentoo channels. - -- - **Matrix presence:** - Although we continue to use IRC as our primary means of real-time communication, we - have also established presence on [Matrix](https://www.matrix.org/). In addition to - Gentoo developers overseeing a native Matrix channel dedicated to our distribution - *#gentoo:matrix.org*, we now maintain a Matrix space *#gentoo-linux:matrix.org* which - includes both the native channel and several bridged Libera Chat IRC channels. - -- **Experimental binary package hosting:** First steps have started to also [provide binary package - hosting](https://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2021/09/experimental-binary-gentoo-package.html) on the Gentoo mirrors. - - -## Discontinued projects - - -This year the following projects have been discontinued: - -- **[Eudev](https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-08-24-eudev-retirement.html):** - After several years, Gentoo maintainers decided that keeping - this barely modified fork of systemd-udev alive was not worth the effort, in particular - since also musl-based installations now work with the original. - In the meantime, maintenance of eudev has been picked up by a [cross-distribution - team](https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev), which means it may be - available for longer. - -- **[µClibc](https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-08-18-uclibc-ng-retirement.html):** - Since µClibc-ng is mostly abandoned upstream, support for the µClibc profiles - was dropped, and the package itself removed end of the year. Anyone interested in - an alternative libc is encouraged to move to musl. - -- **Desktop Miscellaneous:** We decided that "miscellaneous" is not really a useful way to - group packages. The packages so far maintained by this project were reviewed and reassigned - to dissolve the project. - - -## Thank you! - -Of course, if you look in detail, there has been much more news; we can't cover everything here. -**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 it's time to break out the champagne - let's celebrate the new year 2022, -let's hope for good days, and let's make it even more productive! diff --git a/_posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md b/_posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62cac2f --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2022-01-03-new-year.md @@ -0,0 +1,269 @@ +--- +title: '2021 in retrospect & happy new year 2022!' +--- + +Gentoo Fireworks +Happy New Year 2022! + +The past year 2021 brought us all both great and sad news, with the world +still fighting the COVID pandemic. Gentoo is going strong however, and we +are happy to present once more our review of the events of the last 12 months. +Read on +for new developers, exciting changes and improvements, and up-to-date numbers +on Gentoo development. + + + + +## Gentoo in numbers + + +**The number of commits to the [main ::gentoo repository](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/) +has once more clearly grown in 2021**, from *104507* to *126920*, i.e., +by 21%. While the number of commits by external contributors, *11775*, has remained +roughly constant, this number now distributes across *435* unique external authors +compared to *391* last year. We may have recruited some of the top contributors. ;) + +**Contributions to [GURU, our user-curated repository with a trusted user +model](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GURU), have increased enormously.** We count +*4702* commits, up by 73% from *2725* in 2020. The number of contributors has +grown even more, to *119*, up by 116% from *55* in 2020. Please join us there and help +packaging the latest and greatest software! + +On **[our bugtracker bugs.gentoo.org](https://bugs.gentoo.org/)**, the number of new bug reports decreased slightly, with +*24056* bugs opened in 2021, compared to *25500* in 2020. However, more reports were +closed this year, with *24076* bugs resolved in 2021, compared to *23500* in 2020. +The ongoing tinderbox efforts as well as the overall high level of activity seem to be paying off! + + +## New developers + + +In the past year 2021 we have gained an outstanding number of **seven new Gentoo developers**, +much more than in recent years. In chronological order: + +1. **[John Helmert III (ajak)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ajak)** + + + John was the first one to [join in February](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/4088d2ee364814127c2bb0f630d51e4d). He's focusing + on the never-ending security work, wrangling bugs and issuing GLSAs, but also on developing the internal applications and infrastructure of the + security team. We will hopefully have a fresh new GLSAmaker soon! + +2. **[Andrew Ammerlaan (andrewammerlaan)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:AndrewAmmerlaan)** + + + Andrew [signed up in May](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/b9c2ec909212fc3c8bc88c4d10949d78) + and is well known for working on our scientific software stack (specifically physics and electronics), and also handling + user contributions for both the Gentoo repository and the sci overlay. Beyond this he active in the GURU team and also + in Python packaging. + +3. **[Ionen Wolkens (ionen)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Ionen)** + + + Ionen [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/158d8d7c0737c9a07ad8537b5b7f55d0) + and by now is active in many corners of Gentoo. His specific focus area, however, is games, games, games! + In addition, he has also taken over one of our somewhat "special fun" packages, nvidia-drivers, and is the + author of [a whole set of development tools](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-portage/iwdevtools) ... + +4. **[Florian Schmaus (flow)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Flow)** + + + Also having [started in June](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/3806eb498e53f00c9851a0835ef59362), + Florian is busy with Java support, co-administrating the GURU overlay, and the + proxy maintenance team. In addition he contributes to Erlang packaging - one of the more exotic programming + languages present in Gentoo. + +5. **[Arthur Zamarin (arthurzam)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Arthurzam)** + + + Next, [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bdd3eff9c70806cb9748c908306fdcd3), came + Arthur. He's contributing a lot to our Python team, keeping the large number of + Python packages maintained there up-to-date. In addition, he recently joined several architecture teams, so we + can keep offering Gentoo for highly diverse hardware. + +6. **[Jakov Smolić (jsmolic)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Jsmolic)** + + + Our second new recruit [in August](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/6b1c3d06be26877d295121a1fca742d0) + was Jakov. Master of odd jobs, he's fixing bugs across the gentoo tree, solving + QA problems, and also weeding out old packages. Last but not least, he has also joined our + recently renewed architecture team efforts. + +7. **[Maciej Barć (xgqt)](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Xgqt)** + + + Finally, [November](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/bff150221efaf417a83271af07ef71c1) + brought us Maciej. He's coming from the mathematics corner, and consequently his areas + of specialization are scientific and in particular mathematical packages, Scheme, but also, for + example, OCamML. + +
+[Very sad news reached us in February.](https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/02/12/in-memory-of-kent-kentnl-fredric.html) +**Kent Fredric (kentnl)**, a driving force behind our Perl and Rust efforts, died in +a drowning accident - just when he had moved to Florida to start a new phase in his life. +We will all remember his enthusiasm, helpfulness and love for detail, and wish his family +all the best. + + +
+## Featured changes + +Let's look at the major changes and improvements of 2021 in Gentoo now. + + +### Packages + +- + Musl: + Stage 3 tarballs for the alternative libc musl are now built using the + main Gentoo repository only and have been published for several more arches and + configurations. Work is ongoing to import more musl-related fixes and support patches + from the musl overlay, with the objective that musl-based installations + eventually work out-of-the-box in Gentoo. + +- **libxcrypt:** GNU glibc based installations have this year migrated from the deprecated internal + crypt support to the external, new [libxcrypt](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-libs/libxcrypt). + With this we follow several other distributions; we gain modern algorithm support for one-way + hashing of passwords and much easier bugfixing outside the glibc release cycle. + +- [**ROCm:** the AMD open software platform for high performance / hyperscale GPU + computing](https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/) is now **fully packaged in + Gentoo**, thanks to a [contribution](https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/#/org/prodetail/210160212?lang=en) + within the [Summer 2021 Open Source Promotion Plan OSPP](https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/#/?lang=en) of + the [Chinese Academy of Sciences](http://english.is.cas.cn/) and the [openEuler + community](https://www.openeuler.org/en/). Stay tuned for ROCm-enabled applications from Gentoo, such + as Numba, CuPy, [TensorFlow](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sci-libs/tensorflow), and PyTorch. + +- + Python: + In the meantime the default Python version in Gentoo has reached Python 3.9. Additionally we have + also Python 3.10 available stable, which means we're fully up to date with upstream, and + our Python has gained support for link-time and profile-guided optimization (LTO and PGO) + during compilation. + +- **[Themes Project](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Themes):** The + Themes Project was created to maintain X11 themes and to unify their structure. + +- **Stable but up-to-date:** As examples of the fast pace of Gentoo, our stable set + contains among other things gcc 11.2, glibc 2.33, binutils 2.37, LibreOffice 7.1.7, KDE Frameworks 5.88, + Plasma 5.23.4, Gear 21.08.3, GNOME 40, and [many more packages](https://packages.gentoo.org/). If you want to go + bleeding edge, then the very latest code releases are often available as testing packages. + + +### Architectures + +- + [PPC64](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:PowerPC): The PowerPC profiles and downloads have + seen significant updates and enhancements. Several new ppc64 little-endian profiles (desktop, + Gnome, ...) have been added to the Gentoo repository. Our weekly updated downloads now include + little-endian stages optimized for the POWER9 CPU series, and big- and little-endian hardened musl + stage files. + +- + RISC-V: + Support for RISC-V has improved enormously over the past year. Modern desktop environments such as + KDE Plasma, Gnome, but also Lxde, Xfce4, and Enlightenment are fully available, as are other + packages ranging from Rust to ZFS. Many more are in preparation. Gentoo is running nicely and + is actively used on many of the first physical RISC-V systems. [Stage files + are now published weekly](https://gentoo.osuosl.org//releases/riscv/autobuilds/) for + all supported ABI in both systemd and OpenRC variants. We have adapted the library directory paths to + those used by other distributions for better binary compatibility. + +- **[M68k](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:M68k): + Gentoo on Motorola 68000 is back!** We have regularly updated stages for download again, + and keywording of packages is ongoing. + +- **LoongArch64**: + While this is not an official Gentoo project yet, we have already received first code contributions + for Gentoo on [LoongArch64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#LoongArch), a Chinese development + originally based on MIPS. + + +### Infrastructure + +- Release Engineering: This year brought big + updates of our build hardware as well as improvements in [Catalyst](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Catalyst). + A new AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core machine at Hetzner now handles our builds for *amd64*, *x86*, + *alpha*, *m68k*, and *riscv* (the latter via [qemu](https://www.qemu.org/)); a new ARM64 Ampere Neoverse-N1 80-core + machine provided by [Equinix](https://www.equinix.com/) through the [Works On Arm program](https://www.worksonarm.com/) + handles *arm64* and *arm*; and two 16-core POWER9 machines provided by [OSUOSL POWER Development + Hosting](https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/) handle *ppc64* and *ppc*. + This means we have had the capacity to add a [large variety of builds](https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/), from openrc and systemd variants + to musl-based builds whereever possible. + +- HPPA: We have received a donation of a fast HP + Precision Architecture (PA-RISC) machine! It will be set up during the new year and significantly help both + hppa stabilization / keywording efforts and the release engineering builds. + +- Internal modernization: Our infrastructure team has [completed two important internal + milestones](https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/838748f70f5794a0a2c50c359462e4b7): + the migration from 15 years of cfengine-2 configuration management to + [puppet](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-admin/puppet), and the update of a + roughly 10 years old ganeti-2 cluster to a recent ganeti version. Both steps will help a lot + with managing our servers. + + +### Other news + +- **[GKernelCI](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gkernelci), the Gentoo kernel testing system + (see also its [dashboard page](https://gkernelci.gentoo.org)), reached its + [v2.0 milestone](https://github.com/GKernelCI/Gdocker/releases/tag/v2.0).** + New features include full docker integration, the addition of many more (currently only emulated) + architectures, and the automated sending of test results to [KernelCI](https://kernelci.org/) using KCIDB. + +- **Online Gentoo workshops: A series of online workshops in German language started in 2021.** + The meetings take place in BBB every 2 months on the 3rd Saturday of the + month. The events have been very well received, and we also want to provide workshops in + English starting on 2022-02-19. All events are listed on [https://gentoo-ev.org/](https://gentoo-ev.org/). + +- + **The move to [Libera Chat](https://libera.chat/):** After major changes in the governance of Freenode IRC, **Gentoo + and many other open source projects moved their IRC presence to [Libera Chat](https://libera.chat/).** This new + IRC network, founded by former Freenode staffers, has in the meantime become the de-facto replacement of Freenode; + we can certainly say that we feel very welcome and at home there and have a very strong presence with over 100 + Gentoo channels. + +- + **Matrix presence:** + Although we continue to use IRC as our primary means of real-time communication, we + have also established presence on [Matrix](https://www.matrix.org/). In addition to + Gentoo developers overseeing a native Matrix channel dedicated to our distribution + *#gentoo:matrix.org*, we now maintain a Matrix space *#gentoo-linux:matrix.org* which + includes both the native channel and several bridged Libera Chat IRC channels. + +- **Experimental binary package hosting:** First steps have started to also [provide binary package + hosting](https://dilfridge.blogspot.com/2021/09/experimental-binary-gentoo-package.html) on the Gentoo mirrors. + + +## Discontinued projects + + +This year the following projects have been discontinued: + +- **[Eudev](https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-08-24-eudev-retirement.html):** + After several years, Gentoo maintainers decided that keeping + this barely modified fork of systemd-udev alive was not worth the effort, in particular + since also musl-based installations now work with the original. + In the meantime, maintenance of eudev has been picked up by a [cross-distribution + team](https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev), which means it may be + available for longer. + +- **[µClibc](https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-08-18-uclibc-ng-retirement.html):** + Since µClibc-ng is mostly abandoned upstream, support for the µClibc profiles + was dropped, and the package itself removed end of the year. Anyone interested in + an alternative libc is encouraged to move to musl. + +- **Desktop Miscellaneous:** We decided that "miscellaneous" is not really a useful way to + group packages. The packages so far maintained by this project were reviewed and reassigned + to dissolve the project. + + +## Thank you! + +Of course, if you look in detail, there has been much more news; we can't cover everything here. +**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 it's time to break out the champagne - let's celebrate the new year 2022, +let's hope for good days, and let's make it even more productive! -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad