Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: John Davis <zhen@g.o>
To: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-core@l.g.o, gentoo-releng@l.g.o, gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-core] RELEASE Gentoo Linux 2004.1
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:55:08
Message-Id: 1083124490.2588.17.camel@woot.uberdavis.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-core] RELEASE Gentoo Linux 2004.1 by Jay Maynard
1 On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 14:31, Jay Maynard wrote:
2 > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 01:06:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Forman wrote:
3 > > Hate to rain on everyone's apparent gcc/pie/ssp parade but Gentoo Linux
4 > > 2004.1 is getting released to the world today/tomorrow, depending on
5 > > your particular locale on the globe.
6 >
7 > I'm happy to hear it.
8 >
9 > I'm also sad, and regretful, that I was not able to get the promised Alpha
10 > port done in time for this release. Between a paying job that got in the way
11 > during the time that most folks were bulding 2004.1, and a con I'd committed
12 > to go to a long time ago, and then dealing with the fallout from that (seen
13 > the pictures of the guy in the TRON costume floating around the net? That's
14 > me), I flat fell down on the job.
15 >
16 > I feel like I let the side down. Hopefully, for 2004.2, I'll be able to do
17 > the job I promised to do when I was accepted as a developer. In the
18 > meantime, I'll at least get a 2004.1 experimental release set built; it'll
19 > be useful even if it's not an official Gentoo release.
20 >
21 > I'm really sorry, folks.
22 >
23 > ...Jay
24 >
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26 > gentoo-core@g.o mailing list
27
28 Jay -
29 Don't worry about it! We all get swamped at times. If you want to do
30 that experimental release, let me know, and we can get it up on our
31 bittorrent system. Hope to see you for 2004.2.
32
33 Cheers,
34 //zhen
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36 John Davis
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