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Matthew Summers wrote: |
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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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I wouldn't mind seeing this on the main Gentoo page as soon as |
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possible. Some people may not visit the Gentoo page very often, I'm one |
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of those. This could be done even if it has to be changed as things |
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update. Maybe one that it is coming and one a few days before it hits |
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stable in the tree. |
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+1 on this being a good idea. This is a really important update since |
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it can cause a system to be unbootable. I'm thinking about folks that |
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may admin a box remotely too. |
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If all the above is done and people miss that it is coming, I think it |
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could safely be said that everything that could be done was done to |
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inform people. The list above includes about every means of |
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communication Gentoo has. |
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Great post. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |