nightmares on wax

when you suddenly wake up at half past four in the night you know you have been doing a good job getting your life sorted out and all of that.

lots of things are happening in my life at the moment.
i found a new job which is great because i am confident that this will bring me through the final year of my bachelors degree without financial problems plus i am forced to spend time with a good friend and the atmosphere there (four developers and one coffee machine) feels like working in a corporate living room.

The only drawback: it's a C# and Visual Studio 2005 job with .NET 3.0.

This stuff feels more professional and pays the rent, a step forward from that silly undermanaged Java project i worked at school for two years- it paid the rent but didn't feel professional

So what about the open source compiler hacks i am contributing, which from a neutral point of view nobody needs to continue maintaining or wants to benefit from anyway- take a look at the gorgeous project management of our all beloved toolchain maintainers and hardened toolchain maintainers and add 1 to 1. What has happened during the last year and what is happening in the next year? In my eyes in the last year nothing useful has happened to the 3.4.x to 4.x transmission shift but we all saw the fruitless try to offload the integration of maintenance, integration and implementation work of the hardened toolchain suite to an overworked baseline toolchain team at Gentoo and that this didn't really benefit the hardened team. Together with a leadership vacuum we're in a master/slave role now waiting for our fellow developers to give way to our glibc/gcc modding stuff finally being visible by the users of our distribution- or have them forced to use a locked up overlay that has no real status or integration with the baseline either. Get your act together. My plans for SSPx are still valid and justified. And PaX userland development is not sleeping, and when it comes knocking at the door, we should have an answer how to make room for it in our hardened project. And you better have a good answer and not "let's see how toolchain devs think about all of this".

Alex