stuff overlay: active maintenance resumed, AI-assisted workflow disclosed

Posted: 2026-05-06 by Ivan S. Titov | Revision: 1
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After a prolonged time of dormancy, this overlay is under active maintenance again. This news item summarises about a month of work.

== What has changed ==

  • Per-package audits — pkgcheck cleanups, dated rationale for suppressions, metadata.xml normalization.
  • Version handling — keep last-of-each-major for rollback; drop versions whose upstream caps don't solve against ::gentoo rather than relax the cap.
  • sys-kernel/pf-sources -r70 GA-based slots — see the separate news item dated 2026-05-06.
  • Sister distfile repo at github.com/istitov/extra-stuff for bundled patches that would otherwise hit pkgcheck's SizeViolation in the main overlay.


== AI / LLM assistance ==

AI-assisted work begins with commit 075ff35d (2026-04-19); the last fully-human commit is d0e1aa01 (2026-04-18) — a clean before/after boundary for review or bisect.

The maintainer uses LLM tooling for mechanical work; every commit is human-reviewed before landing, and the maintainer bears responsibility for correctness. Full policy and PR disclosure expectation: CONTRIBUTING.md, "🤖 AI / LLM assistance".

Regressions, or anything that looks LLM-generated and wrong: file at github.com/istitov/stuff/issues with the failing emerge log.

== References ==

  • README.md — overlay highlights and design choices.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md — house-style checklist and AI/LLM policy.