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Hi all: |
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There has been some confusion about release procedure, snapshots, and |
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many other things that lend themselves to being confusing at this point |
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(i.e catalyst/ baselayout/ livecds, etc). |
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First of all, I would like to thank all of you for putting up with the |
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various confusions, misunderstandings, bugs, etc. Like Pieter said, |
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catalyst will be an amazing tool when it is completed. Catalyst delivers |
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to the users a manifestation of our entire philosophy - choice and |
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control. For the first time, users will be able to easily exercise full |
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control over every aspect of their Distribution - from installation |
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stages to liveCDs to GRP; something that no other distribution offers. |
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Until catalyst is finished, and that will be post .0 but before .1, we |
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have to deal with some bumps. Snapshots are one such bump. It is too |
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late to implement this now, but for .1 I would like to enforce a "drop |
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dead date" that packages can be added to a snapshot. Once releng sets |
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the date (with input from arch leads) for snap creation, it is up to the |
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developers to mark everything stable that needs to be included in the |
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snap. Doing so should alleviate some of the problems that we have had w/ |
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system packages by giving us the ability to control if, when, and where |
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system packages are updated into the snap. Please note that this is not |
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a freeze, but rather a QA control so that we don't have to duplicate |
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work efforts by building five different sets of stages, GRP, etc. |
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The release process is a cooperative effort by arch leads and releng. If |
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we work through .0 into .1 like we have so far, we will have absolutely |
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no problem overcoming the problems that arise. |
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Cheers, |
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//zhen |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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change your world. |
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