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> we'd never release ~arch tarballs |
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I'm talking testing, you're thinking stable... |
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Testers by definition do not want old stuff. The reason they are |
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testing is they want new stuff. Yes, they understand the risk. In |
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Debian they use "unstable" and "experimental" branches. |
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Some big distros even vector off "unstable," such as Ubunutu. So I am |
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not alone in this... |
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The rolling stage3 suggestion isn't that Gentoo checks everything. The |
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servers just spit them out. The idea is that Gentoo give testers more |
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recent ~stage3's than year-old tarballs which are not even marked ~arch. |
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No SVN/CVS etc. Our explicit interest is testing - not stable |
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releases! Even when you ship 2008.0 we'll be on ~arch. |
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Having just gone through days of testing with 2007.0, and upgrading to |
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~ppc, I'm just trying to offer some constructive feedback. Linux |
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projects want testers and developers, in general. The way to attract |
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testers is lowering barriers to entry. |
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> I think your idea of how Gentoo releases work is a bit skewed. |
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> Everything comes from stable. Always. |
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I'm not clear how I said otherwise? Well, okay, straighten me out ... |
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My understanding is |
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* Gentoo has two parallel ongoing branches, arch and ~arch |
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* ~arch has more recent packages than arch but less stability |
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* both branches keep upgrading over time with bug/security/feature fixes |
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* the only stage3 tarballs that exist are for the previous mega public |
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release |
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* Gentoo releng team plants a pole in the ground and ~arch becomes arch |
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"beta" |
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* arch "beta" quickly turns into arch-stable, while a new ~arch forks |
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ahead |
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Corrections welcome...Anyway, rolling testing tarballs for ~arch was the |
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idea. |
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Rolling tarballs for both arch and ~arch together is no more work than |
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one or the other. It would be the same automated stuff. |
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Thanks for a wonderful distro and the work on 2008.0. |
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