November 2021
At the start of the month I was spending time on getting the SDK bump to work on LLVM 7, this was not fruitful and the only reason was making the 21.11 cut-off deadline so I dropped it. Instead I helped out with ZHF and finished up work on the LLVM 11 bump, which has been merged to staging. Stabilizing is ongoing on staging-next to shake out any remaining problems, like breaking MariaDB because it was updated.
Domen’s call for Darwin maintainers had a good response. The darwin-maintainers team has grown to almost 40 people, this should help with both response times and number of eyeballs on any Darwin issues that pop up. Five new Darwin builders were added to OfBorg to help with Darwin maintenance, very useful for maintainers without access to a Darwin system. These builders are sponsored by MacStadium.
@pxc asked me to shout out @bergkvist’s work on generating small binary wrappers. Darwin does not allow for interpreted scripts to be used as shebang interpreters. Using a binary wrapper for programs that are commonly used as shebang interpreters, like Python, Perl or Ruby, would workaround this limitation.