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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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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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