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How hard is it to get a jobserver client right?
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/09/02/how-hard-is-it-to-get-a-jobserver-client-right/
Published: September 2, 2026 17:40
In November 2025, I’ve started working on steve, the jobserver for Gentoo. I wrote about it already, in the “One jobserver to rule them all” post. Back then, my main focus was on the motivation for a system-wide jobserver, and the technical details of…
pkgbump: from a dumb tool to an irreplaceable helper
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/06/21/pkgbump-from-a-dumb-tool-to-an-irreplaceable-helper/
Published: June 21, 2026 03:29
Bumping packages is one of the most common tasks of a Gentoo developer. It shouldn’t then be surprising that it is the one most asking for some kind of automation, and that the pkgbump script would be one of the first scripts to become a part of the…
2026 Council Manifesto
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/06/11/2026-council-manifesto/
Published: June 11, 2026 11:41
I joined Gentoo over 15 years ago. I was a university student back then. I had lots of free time and energy. I was enthusiastic about novelties, and wanted to push them into Gentoo. Back then, bleeding edge was what I wanted out of it. Today, I have…
Why Gentoo?
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/05/28/why-gentoo/
Published: May 28, 2026 04:32
Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo knows it has something to do with compiling everything. And why are…
The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models
Published: April 5, 2026 13:10
Honestly, I hate that I read about LLMs all the time. I hate all the marketing bullshit, but also all the critical pieces. Not because the criticism is wrong. I hate them precisely because they’re right. And I hate the feeling that I have to write yet…
Money isn’t going to solve the burnout problem
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/03/07/money-isnt-going-to-solve-the-burnout-problem/
Published: March 7, 2026 20:15
The xz-utils backdoor situation brought the problem of FLOSS maintained burnout into the daylight. This in turn lead to numerous discussion on how to solve the problem, and the recurring theme was funding maintenance work. While I’m definitely not opposed…
One jobserver to rule them all
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/11/30/one-jobserver-to-rule-them-all/
Published: November 30, 2025 19:34
A common problem with running Gentoo builds is concurrency. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. This problem becomes less pronounced when running building…
How we incidentally uncovered a 7-year old bug in gentoo-ci
Published: October 12, 2025 09:14
“Gentoo CI” is the service providing periodic linting for the Gentoo repository. It is a part of the Repository mirror and CI project that I’ve started in 2015. Of course, it all started as a temporary third-party solution, but it persisted, was integrated…
EPYTEST_PLUGINS and other goodies now in Gentoo
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/07/26/epytest_plugins-and-other-goodies-now-in-gentoo/
Published: July 26, 2025 13:29
If you are following the gentoo-dev mailing list, you may have noticed that there’s been a fair number of patches sent for the Python eclasses recently. Most of them have been centered on pytest support. Long story short, I’ve came up with what I believed…
Poetry(-core), or the ultimate footgun
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2024/12/20/poetry-core-or-the-ultimate-footgun/
Published: December 20, 2024 14:32
I’ve been complaining about the Poetry project a lot, in particular about its use (or more precisely, the use of poetry-core) as a build system. In fact, it pretty much became a synonym of a footgun for me — and whenever I’m about to package some project…