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Hi, |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>: |
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> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Christian Faulhammer |
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> <fauli@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I'd like to collect some things we need to do before Baselayout 2 |
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> > and OpenRC can go stable. Up to now I have: |
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> > * eselect 1.1 stable (current RC3) for the support in the rc module |
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> > * a newer splashutils stable |
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> > * documentation updates (http://bugs.gentoo.org/213988, thanks |
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> > Jeremy) |
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> > What else? As some of you might foresee, this can be as hard as a |
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> > major GCC stabilisation, so it must be well-planned and organised. |
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> > V-Li |
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> > -- |
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> > Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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> > <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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> > <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |
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> The only reason why OpenRC has not come up for stabilization by it's |
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> maintainers is the fact that everytime there's a new version readied |
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> for release, on the horizon there's new incompatible changes being |
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> planned for the next version. The OpenRC maintainers in Gentoo have |
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> always chosen to wait until OpenRC settles down a little bit. Now with |
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> the plan to drop support for certain features (ADSL and PPP support in |
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> the networking code), it's going to rewrite more Gentoo people to step |
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> up to develop and maintain this code. |
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After having seen vapier speaking about stabilisation on -core we had |
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a discussion about the wanted news item, which i posted for review. |
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Before the "todo" mail, I wrote to the maintainers (Roy and |
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base-system) some days in advance, with only a reaction from Roy. |
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> If you're volunteering for this position, Christian, I'll happily step |
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> down and allow you to maintain this. I would also discuss this with |
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> zzam and vapier, the other 2 maintainers of OpenRC. |
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All I want to do is help with the stabilisation...which I though is |
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nigh. |
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V-Li |
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-- |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |