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diff --git a/contribs.yml b/contribs.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20ec3aa --- /dev/null +++ b/contribs.yml @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +tags: + docs: + prettyName: Documentation + desc: | + I'm working to improve documentation for GNU/Linux, but more + than that I'm working to improve the forms of documentation that + more skilled technical writers might be afraid or incapable of + working on: `--help` text, generated documentation, and auditing + documentation against the source code to make sure that it is + accurate and complete. + ARM: + prettyName: ARM support + desc: | + Not that folks can't use GNU/Linux on ARM (obviously, the + Raspberry Pi has been a huge success), but there's still a lot + more friction to using GNU/Linux on ARM compared to x86. I'm + working on that. + GI: + prettyName: GObject Introspection + desc: | + GObject Introspection (which is a terrible name for what it is, + btw) is a cross-(language-runtime) object system. GObject was + an object system for C that game out of GTK+, and then GObject + Introspection was created as a way to specify the ABI for + working with an object, so that GObjects could be used from + other languages. I think that GObject Introspection is a really + cool technology that can be the basis of reducing friction + between languages, but it needs better/more-ubiquitous tooling. + +contributions: + - urls: [https://github.com/flori/json/pull/567] + tags: [Ruby, JSON, SoftwareFreedom] + desc: | + ruby-json contains code that is not Free under the FSF's + definition, not Open Source under the OSI's definition, and not + GPL-compatible. This has coused much consternation among folks + who care about any of those 3 things. + + This PR replaces that non-Free code with Free code, removing + friction for Ruby users on GNU/Linux distros that care about + those 3 things. + - urls: [https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_requests/328] + tags: [ARM] + sponsored-by: Umorpha Systems + desc: | + To do its work, mkinitcpio needs to know the version number of + the Linux kernel that it is generating an image for; the normal + way that it knows this is to sniff the version number from the + kernel file. However, it fails to sniff the version number from + ARM zImage kernels, which means that Arch Linux ARM and Parabola + for ARM need to resort to hacks to get mkinitcpio to work right. + + This PR removes that friction by teaching mkinitcpio to + understand ARM zImage files. + - urls: [https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_requests/277] + sponsored-by: Umorpha Systems + desc: | + One of the things going on in the secure-boot world is moving + toward "Unified Kernel Images" (UKI), which are when the kernel + and the init-ramdisk are bundled together into a single file to + reduce the risk of a compromised init-ramdisk being able to + compromise a secured kernel. This PR reduces friction when + using mkinitcpio to generate images directly as UKI without + generating a plain init-ramdisk first. + - urls: + - https://mailman.astron.com/pipermail/file/2024-April/001335.html + - https://github.com/file/file/commit/cf139abf35d07ebfd0c3edcab2fc400a211c0fbb + tags: [ARM] + desc: | + This PR improves its ability to detect information about Linux + kernel ARM zImage files. + - urls: + - https://mailman.astron.com/pipermail/file/2024-March/001327.html + - https://github.com/file/file/commit/3b92878ee277a6b6c0a37429e9edf5e5b55fcdd4 + tags: [docs] + desc: | + To do this, `file` reads a "magic" file that describes the magic + numbers that it might see in a file. This PR fixes a mistake in + the `magic(5)` manual for writing such files. + - urls: [https://github.com/diamondburned/gotk4/pull/140] + tags: [GI, docs] + desc: | + The not-quite-markdown format that `.gir` files use for + documentation is under-specified and hard to parse. Right now + I'm focusing on how to properly parse it, so that we can have + top-notch language-specific documentation for GI libraries. + + This PR is laying the groundwork for the new parser. + - urls: + - https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linux-erofs/2023-November/009765.html + - https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/commit/f528b82ffbcb15484a7195c1a1d08ece0ff67350 + - https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/commit/197e3294bcdf93f37d12989cd830a33c055b1a53 + - https://github.com/erofs/erofs-utils/commit/f97311883337eb7e0ded55e60995e6599eba73e5 + tags: [docs] + sponsored-by: Umorpha Systems + desc: | + This patchset improves the `--help` documentation and + man-pages the EroFS userspace tools, and reduces friction by + having `fsck.erofs` accept common command line flags that fsck + implementions for other filesystems take. |