Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

[Gokhan via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

It seems that we have both been trying to find the right way to move this
forward. I have been looking for ways to contribute, while you have been
trying to identify a suitable task for me.
I reviewed the areas you previously mentioned, but it seemed that I would
need to spend a significant amount of time getting familiar with them
first. For that reason, I postponed joining for a while.
This time, however, it looks like there may be some opportunities where I
can contribute more effectively. I will review the available options and
get back to you after I have had some time to assess them.
Please give me some time to look into this properly.

Kolaylıkla
*Kadir Gökhan Sezer*


On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 8:50 PM Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 6/16/26 10:59 AM, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 16/06/26 11:50, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2026-06-15 at 20:10 -0300, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> >>> 6. Internal script cleanup
> >>>
> >>> This might be a more contentious one, but I think we can reduce our
> build
> >>> dependencies by at least rewriting the Perl script to either awk or
> Python.
> >>
> >> Hmm, it seems glibc can already build w/o Perl (if you don't care the
> >> info pages which need Texinfo).  I happened to figure that out after
> >> forgetting the temporary Perl and Texinfo installations before building
> >> glibc when I performed a test build of Linux From Scratch manually
> >> several days ago.
> >
> > We still install the mtrace, so to use all the glibc features one would
> > need to install perl. The scripts/test-installation.pl is already gated
> > through perl existence, but I think it is not a good design if we silent
> > disable testing due missing tools.
>
> (1) Dependencies.
>
> May we please start a new there for this?
>
> Particularly around "build", "test", and "runtime" dependencies.
>
> >>
> >> Also reducing the Perl scripts won't help too much for distros as
> >> Texinfo is still in Perl and the distros will need the info pages
> >> anyway.
> >>
> >
> > I think the main gain is for mtrace, the two other scripts
> > (test-installation.pl, summary.pl) are not essential.  The summary.pl is
> > only required for manual generation and you put texinfo already brings it
> > anyway.
> >
>
> (2) Bootstrap.
>
> May we please start a new thread for this?
>
> This is another distinct discussion which has to do with reducing
> toolchain bootstrap dependencies. I say "bootstrap" because you should
> have a way to bootstrap (to do reproducible builds, or audit a minimal
> bootstrap seed, or bringup hardware) that needs the fewest number of
> things you can manage. This can include disabling features during the
> bootstrap.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
>