Title: stuff overlay: active maintenance resumed, AI-assisted workflow disclosed
Author: Ivan S. Titov <iohann.s.titov@gmail.com>
Posted: 2026-05-06
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0

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.