There was good news in my mailbox today. The Gentoo Foundation was accepted to be a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code 2017! What this means is we need you as a mentor, backup mentor o...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2017/02/27/gentoo-is-accepted-to-gsoc-2017/
(A previous version of this post recommended #gentoo-soc-mentors on Freenode as the preferred discussion channel for GSoC, please use #gentoo-soc instead as the former is invite-only or ask us to...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2017/02/05/google-summer-of-code-2017-is-starting/
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for proposing a talk to SCALE 15x is on November 15th. More information, including topics of interest, is available on the SCALE website. SCALE 15x is to b...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2016/11/06/scale-15x-cfp-is-closing-soon/
Google Summer of Code 2016 is starting. If you are a student please be patient. Your time will come soon, at which point we’ll be able to answer all your questions. In this initial phase the au...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2016/02/10/it-is-gsoc-season-again/
I don’t know about you but I’m going to SCALE 14x. SCALE is always a lot of fun and last year I particularly liked their new embedded track. This year’s schedule looks equally exciting. Amo...
is 46. In a previous post I described how to patch QEMU to allow building binutils in a cross chroot. In there I increased the maximal number of argument pages to 64 because I was just after a qu...
Here’s a bug and my response to it which both deserve a little bit more visibility than being buried under some random bug number. I’m actually surprised nobody complained about that before. ...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2015/04/05/why-we-do-not-have-nor-want-r-packages-in-the-tree/
I tried building binutils-2.25 in a qemu chroot and I got the following error during the build process: /bin/sh: Argument list too long Google wasn’t helpful. So I looked at the code for qemu-2...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2015/03/11/binsh-argument-list-too-long/
TL;DR: Gentoo not selected for GSoC 2015 ‘to make way for new orgs”. All is not lost: some Gentoo projects will be available within other organizations. As you may have already noted, the Ge...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2015/03/06/google-summer-of-code-2015-2/
This is a quick informational message about GSoC 2015. The Gentoo Foundation is in the process of applying to GSoC 2015 as an organization. This is the 10th year we’ll participate to this very...
https://blogs.gentoo.org/calchan/2015/02/16/google-summer-of-code-2015/