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Hi, |
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I have a few suggestions regarding this major change to Gentoo systems. |
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1. We should determine and then announce the precise date (appears to |
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be in May) and time that baselayout-2 will be stabilized via: |
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1.1 A front page News item on www.g.o (PR team assemble!), |
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1.2 The main MLs (gentoo-announce, gentoo-users, etc), |
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1.3 Add a link to the www news item to /topic in #gentoo, and |
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1.4 Post a sticky topic in the Forum. |
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all in addition to the eselect news item under discussion here. The |
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above would link to the migration guide too. |
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The rationale for this effort at getting the word out is to prevent |
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users from hosing their system(s). While I tend to agree that users |
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should read these eselect news items, its often not the case. |
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Therefore I recommend shooting for the widest possible distribution of |
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this information. Also, this gives PR a chance to let the world know |
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about openrc and its benefits to Gentoo. |
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2. We should prepare a quick "recover-your-system" guide (could also |
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create a script too) that can be quickly linked to for user support. |
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This will save time for people providing support via IRC, email, etc, |
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and give people a reasonable means of system recovery without huge |
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pain. |
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3. Update the handbook to reflect these changes as soon as possible, |
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and have that all go public simultaneously with the stabilization. |
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4. I have attached an edited and unfinished version of the original |
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news item for review. I attempted to be succinct. |
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This is a really exciting and potentially also rather |
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anxiety-provoking change for our user base and Gentoo. We all know |
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that the new baselayout is awesome, and users will find out soon |
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enough. We simply need to make our best effort at easing the |
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transition so we minimize the number of casualties. |
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Thank you, |
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Matt |
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Matthew W. Summers |