Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Migrating man page to asciidoc?
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:19:15
Message-Id: 4E1106E8.4070504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Migrating man page to asciidoc? by Matt Turner
1 On 07/04/2011 02:10 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
2 >>>> We use 2.0.6.916 on official releng releases.
3 >>>> I tried 9999 on my private tests because [..]
4 >>>
5 >>> To me that leaves the question who uses 9999 for serious stuff at all.
6 >>> In case it's no one (which we should find out) we could trash that
7 >>> branch and fully concentrate on calalyst_2.
8 >>>
9 >>> I guess that sounds a bit radical at first. It doesn't have to be a
10 >>> quick decision. Also, version control allows us to bring it back if needed.
11 >>>
12 >>> Ideas on find out who is using 9999:
13 >>>
14 >>> - Removing 9999 ebuild from the tree and see who's complaining
15 >>>
16 >>> - Resetting branch master to nothing but a README announcing
17 >>> the possible death of that thread and a request to join
18 >>> this mailing list and speak up about it if there is need.
19 >>>
20 >>> - Asking on one/some/all of gentoo-dev, gentoo-user, gentoo forums,
21 >>> planet gentoo.
22 >>>
23 >>> After such action I imagine a time window of 2 to 4 weeks to give people
24 >>> a chance to react.
25 >>>
26 >>> What do you think?
27 >>>
28 >>>
29 >>>> I can confirm that the build with the master branch fails as it doesn't
30 >>>> seem able to find the spec files or doesn't accept them - the official
31 >>>> ones we use to build weekly releases.
32 >>>
33 >>> That seems to further decrease the chance that someone is using 9999 for
34 >>> real to me.
35 >>
36 >> One week has passed by. Anyone?
37 >
38 > I'm perfectly fine with the change, especially after the graphviz
39 > dependency of asciidoc was made optional.
40
41 Please re-read the text above. It's not about asciidoc.
42 I'll make a new thread.
43
44 Best,
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48 Sebastian