Continuous stabilization of Gentoo Packages
- Mentors
- bicatali, Nitin Agarwal
- Organization
- Gentoo Foundation
Gentoo is an operating system with extreme focus on configurability and performance. To provide fully customizable experience, without interfering with the stability of the system, Gentoo has a concept of masked packages. These masked packages (or versions) are either untested, or are known to be unstable and are installed only if the user explicitly unmasks them. While this concept is a boon to the stability of the operating system, the current implementation requires the packages to be tested manually by a team of developers. This significantly increases the time in which new packages are made safely available to the users. The goal of this project is to provide a mechanism to test and stabilize the packages automatically with little or no human intervention.