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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] 2.1 release candidate soon?]
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:52:34
Message-Id: 44360C2B.3010302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] 2.1 release candidate soon?] by Alec Warner
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4 Alec Warner wrote:
5 > Vapier in particular has backported some changes into the 2.0.54 tree
6 > with I assume hopes to make a 2.0.55 release. The 2.1 release is a
7 > large change over the 2.0 series, I'd like to give people a bit more
8 > time on 2.0. For a while this may mean 2.0 and 2.1 stable at the same
9 > time, although there is no harm in that either. We haven't had a new
10 > 2.0 release in a while, and there are features worth backporting IMHO.
11 >
12 > Remember that while most of the development community runs portage-2.1
13 > many of the users do not; and they have not seen a 2.0 release in some
14 > time. I think we can stable 2.0.55 faster than 2.1, as 2.1 will
15 > probably need a series of _rc releases before being considered stable.
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17 Maybe 2.0.55 can be stabled slightly faster. But is it really worth anyones time, even to keyword it? Not it my mind. As the gap widens between 2.0.54 and 2.1, the value of a 2.0.55 release diminishes accordingly.
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19 Zac
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