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On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 11:12 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> > For example, if we hand out CDs at conventions etc, we would have to |
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> > also hand out source CDs. |
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> As my reply there, however, Gentoo does still have it better than most, in |
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> that the LiveCDs contain relatively few binaries, and they tend to be |
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> relatively core packages to which sources should still be available even |
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> for historic releases, should we wish to continue distributing the |
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> historical LiveCDs. The packages CDs OTOH... |
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Umm... The LiveCD has almost 700 packages on it. Perhaps you mean the |
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InstallCD? |
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> Again as I mentioned there, I'd suggest retiring package CDs 30 days after |
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> the next release is out, thus eliminating the largest share of the |
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> problem. With the limited binaries on the LiveCDs, it may be worth |
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> keeping the sources around as well as the LiveCDs, for historical reasons. |
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> Elsewise, I'd suggest retiring them 30 days after the /second/ release to |
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> come out after them. That should reduce Gentoo's sources requirement to a |
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> manageable level. Beyond that, whether those current minus-one packages, |
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> and current minus-two liveCDs, sources should be hosted on an archive |
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> server or continue on the mirrors is for Infra to decide. I'd suggest a |
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> policy that has RelEng archiving sources to an archive host as part of the |
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> RelEng process, as the most reliable and least hassle. Then they'd be |
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> there, and could be removed at any point after the parallel CDs using |
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> their binaries had been removed. However, others may have more workable |
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> ideas, and I'm not a dev let alone Infra, so wouldn't wish to pretend to |
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> decide what's best for them. |
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Please don't pretend that you can decide what's best for Release |
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Engineering, either. =] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |