No loops for grub
Metadata
Current evaluation
Refactors grub handling to avoid loop devices, replacing special handling with a more generic approach. Stalled for 100 days pending maintainer feedback on architectural direction.
Suggested action: needs review
Reason: The PR has been inactive for 100 days with no maintainer follow-up on lengau's question about whether grub could be made a parts plugin instead. Maintainer input is needed to resolve the architectural direction and determine if this approach is acceptable before the PR can progress.
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
20.0
Staleness:
75
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
65
Issue body
Part 2 of my "no loop device" effort
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Impact:
50
Quick Win:
20.0
Staleness:
75
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
65
|
needs review | Refactors grub handling to avoid loop devices, replacing special handling with a more generic approach. Stalled for 100 days pending maintainer feedback on architectural direction. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
55
Complexity:
60
Confidence:
70
|
needs review | Removes loop device usage for grub image assembly, changing 7 files. Currently pending maintainer review after 56 days of inactivity and unresolved architectural questions. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
45
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
85
|
needs review | Refactors grub handling to eliminate loop device usage, part of a broader cleanup effort. Currently under discussion after maintainer feedback on plugin architecture; author pushed a follow-up commit but activity has paused for 44 days. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
10
Complexity:
45
Confidence:
90
|
needs review | Removes special loop device handling for GRUB as part of a broader cleanup effort. Currently under active discussion with a maintainer exploring potential refactoring into a parts plugin. Author recently pushed updates based on feedback. |
Update history
No update history recorded yet.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #434 feat(grub): loop-device-free EFI GRUB setup | imagecraft | open | Part of a GRUB refactoring stack implementing loop-device-free EFI GRUB setup. Fresh PR with 7 unresolved review comments and no maintainer engagement yet. | |
| #416 feat(grub): install BIOS GRUB without loop devices or chroot | imagecraft | open | Part 6 of a stack refactoring GRUB BIOS/MBR installation to work without root privileges, removing chroot and loop device dependencies. Under review with 3 unresolved comments. | |
| #417 refactor: remove the now-unused chroot and loop device helpers | imagecraft | open | Removes unused chroot handler and loop device helpers after GRUB installation was refactored to work without root privileges. Part 7 of a 7-part stack. No reviewer engagement yet. |