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...Which isn't stable yet, so stable users won't see them... if there |
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even were any news items (I'm using portage 2.2, just sync'd and there |
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are no news items listed). |
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I was aware of GLEP 42 but it's one of those things that seems to have |
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existed in some form since I started using Gentoo several years ago and |
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has never been implemented. |
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Given that it's apparently already in testing, when will developers |
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start using this system? (And how will it be known if there are any |
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issues with it if it hasn't been used on the live tree before 2.1.6 goes |
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stable?) |
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And who is going to make sure that developers are using it to keep users |
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informed of (potential) issues? |
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Also, will news items be posted to a web page, forum or mailing list in |
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addition so that they can be easily linked to from forums / irc / |
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mailing lists and users can see issues coming in advance if they don't |
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sync particularly frequently? |
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AllenJB |
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Zac Medico wrote: |
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> AllenJB wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> I would like to suggest that as part of the stabilization process, |
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>> developers are required to (get PR to) make an announcement about any |
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>> manual intervention that (might be) required on a stable system. |
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>> At the moment, this would include most blocks (eg. the recent e2fsprogs |
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>> block) and issues such as the firefox/xulrunner use flag issue. |
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>> These announcements should appear on the gentoo.org front page, |
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>> gentoo-announce list and the announcements forum. |
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>> The announcement should appear before the first (affected) architecture |
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>> stabilizes the package. |
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>> I think this would help alleviate the load of those helping in the |
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>> forums, irc and mailing lists as well as probably reduce the number of |
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>> unnecessarily created bugs. |
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>> Obviously the need for these announcements will be drastically reduced |
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>> with the stabilization of portage 2.1.6 / 2.2, but I suspect there will |
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>> still be things which they can not handle automatically. |
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>> AllenJB |
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> You can use GLEP 42 news items which are supported with portage-2.1.6: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html |
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> - -- |
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> Thanks, |
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> Zac |
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