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Hi Matt, |
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:41:23AM -0500, Matthew Summers wrote: |
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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 problem is that the date is still subject to change. If we get more |
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bugs that we think should block stabilization, those would be fixed, |
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then a new release put out, then we are back to waiting 30 days unless |
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we make an exception to the 30 day rule. |
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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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As far as I know, the only thing that can go wrong here is rebooting |
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after installing bl2/openrc without following the migration guide. If |
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you do that, the only thing you can do is boot a live cd, chroot into |
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the system and follow the migration guide from there. |
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There's not really a way I know of that we could write a script to do |
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that. |
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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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There is a bug that is blocked by the tracker for this. |
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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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Ok, I took your news item, and I'll look it over. I may add more to it |
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about what will happen if you do not follow the migration guide. |