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From: Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:51:50
Message-Id: 46A25508.6020009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans by Roy Marples
1 Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 12:15 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
3 >> Roy Marples wrote:
4 >>> This is just a heads up for getting baselayout-2 stable. Next week I
5 >>> plan to put baselayout-2.0.0_rc1 into the tree without any keywords and
6 >>> it will be removed from package.mask (keeping the current alphas masked
7 >>> though). Arch teams will then be pinged on a bug to keyword
8 >>> baselayout-2.
9 >> You should find someone from the GDP to write some user migration docs.
10 >
11 > Good idea. Any volunteers?
12
13 (GDP): you give us the info, we'll document it for you. Or I will at least.
14
15 Of equal concern to me, however are a few issues:
16
17 1) How will stabilization work? Is it a forced upgrade from stable 1.x
18 to 2.x, or can it be slotted?
19 2) It will be completely unmanageable to have more than one set of
20 baselayout instructions in the handbook & other docs, so there
21 definitely is a need for the migration doc.
22 3) How long will 1.x be kept stable? (This affects how long the old
23 instructions are in the handbooks etc.)
24 4) What baselayout will be used in the next release? (Maybe that's more
25 of a releng question.)
26 5) Do you have a rough estimate (month, 3 weeks, 5 weeks, what?) on when
27 the first arches might be stabilizing 2.x?
28
29 This is all from the GDP's perspective, almost none of it is of interest
30 to me as a user; I expect this sh** to work just as well as
31 baselayout-1.x when I hit the upgrade myself. :)
32
33 Documenting this will be a major arsepain--er, effort--since baselayout
34 1.x directions are already mixed in so well with pretty much every doc
35 we have. I'm not at all looking forward to fixing the docs when the time
36 comes, but I will do it provided I get to borrow your brain for a good
37 long time. :)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-2 stablisation plans Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>