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Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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>> GDP team: |
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>> (I didn't hear from you in the bug) |
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>> Could you please update: |
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>> - handbook section "Writing Init scripts" |
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>> - OpenRC migration guide |
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> ACK on this one, we are already overwhelmed by openrc changes wrt init |
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> scripts at media teams. Or at least, I am. |
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Then, my fellow developers, ya'll need to tell us exactly what needs to |
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change. That has not yet happened on the bugs, just a lot of offtopic |
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discussion relevant to the package maintainers, but not to the GDP for |
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documentation purposes. Just because there's lots of chatter on e.g. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270646 doesn't mean that the GDP |
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has any idea of how to proceed. |
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GuideXML patches are nice, but not necessary. What we *do* need, at a |
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minimum, is a concise description of what the current text says, and |
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what it needs to say. Thanks. |
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Also, if OpenRC/baselayout is dropping support for things like PPP or |
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ADSL[1], and will not guarantee a "stable" configuration (i.e. as |
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"final" as baselayout-1 has been, not needing constant user-side |
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updates)[2] . . . then we need to find some other solution for our users. |
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If upstream doesn't ever want to slow down, wants to constantly stick in |
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new features, try out new things, that's all well and good. More power |
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to 'em. But I think that is ultimately not such a good thing for our |
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users. Especially if it means constantly dropping support for features, |
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sacrificing compatibility, etc. We're already having enough trouble |
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trying to ensure future Portage compatibility via EAPIs, we should not |
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add in a potential baselayout/OpenRC mess atop that. |
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Oh, yes . . . and there's the workload it would put on the GDP folks. We |
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already have a helluva time running around chasing devs down and prying |
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out straight answers about what to update in the existing documentation. |
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We'd probably all quit if we had to do the same thing for every new |
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openrc/baselayout release. |
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[1] |
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http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c200905252003.42176.rbu%40gentoo.org%3e |
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[2] |
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http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c200905252003.42176.rbu%40gentoo.org%3e |
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