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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:54 +0100, Lars Weiler wrote: |
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> * Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> [05/12/05 14:37 -0500]: |
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> > I would also need to know school/work/vacation schedules |
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> > for the first quarter of next year, so we can plan |
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> > accordingly. |
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> First quarter is okay with me, as I guess I'm not in the |
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> end-phase of my diploma by then. I may have two or three |
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> exams in January/February, but that should not hold back for |
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> releasing. |
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> As I won't manage Gentoo at Fosdem in 2006, I will attend as |
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> a visitor only. And as I live in Europe, I don't need a two |
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> week vacation after it ;-) The question is, should we |
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> release before Fosdem (end of February) or after it (end of |
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> March when Chris returned)? |
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If we release before FOSDEM, it means we pretty much need to get started |
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now to make sure our tools are well tested and stabilized before we make |
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our portage snapshot freeze. I would really prefer we not have to |
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update genkernel/catalyst versions after the snapshot. That seems to |
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always cause friction. What this means is we would need all of you to |
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test catalyst 2.0_rc* now and report back any problems as soon as |
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possible. |
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> > I already sent out the information on what x86 will be releasing to the |
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> > list, so I am not going to repeat that here. |
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> I'll try to make the ppc-release as similar to x86 as |
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> possible, regarding the installed applications on the |
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> InstallCD and USE-Flags. |
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> Open questions: |
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> - nptl with -nptlonly and it's open bug |
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I'll leave this up to you. I *really* don't want anyone using nptlonly, |
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but if it causes problems on your architecture not to, well, that is |
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completely your prerogative as the Arch Coordinator. I'm not going to |
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try to make you do something broken, but if there's any way to get "nptl |
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-nptlonly" working, then I would say to go for that. |
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> - further merge of ppc with ppc64 |
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> - XLiveCD with installer |
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I'm pretty sure that the Installer won't be ready for PPC. I can give |
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you my spec files and fsscripts/etc along with an gli ebuild set if you |
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would like to build an Installer CD now for testing, but this one might |
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be a ways off. That being said, I'd love to get more information from |
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you on how to setup X auto-detection stuff on PPC for a LiveCD. I am |
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attempting now to normalize this and make it more useful and more |
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universal across architectures, so any information would be greatly |
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appreciated. |
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> - support of 43p-RS/6000 |
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> - further OldWorld-support |
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> - alpha-support for AirportExtreme |
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I'm guessing this is all kernel-related stuff, so I leave that to you. |
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-- |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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