| 1 |
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
| 2 |
> This slightly more hardware support is almost always what new boxen need. Of course people can |
| 3 |
> install Gentoo from another more up to date other distro, but wouldn't it be better if that were |
| 4 |
> optional and not mandatory? That if people have new hardware which is not supported by their own |
| 5 |
> distro, that they can pop in the latest gentoo cd and know that if there is any distro whose |
| 6 |
> install cd supports their hardware, that gentoo will too? |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
Sure it would be nice, but this has its price too, namely a lot more |
| 9 |
time spent on bringing releases out. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
> There would also be many more chances to fix things, since these images would be relatiely short |
| 12 |
> lived. Since each image would be more similar than the previous one than our current 6 months apart |
| 13 |
> releases are to eachother, testing could be spread out more. And our users would get more chances |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
Uhm, just because you release more often, that doesn't mean you need |
| 16 |
less testing to get the same level of quality. |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
That being said, I think this is really up to the releng team and noone |
| 19 |
else. They are doing the work, so we can discuss it far and wide, as |
| 20 |
long as releng doesn't want to do it, nothing will happen. So maybe we |
| 21 |
should wait for a statement from Chris before doing anything else. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
-- |
| 24 |
Kind Regards, |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
Simon Stelling |
| 27 |
Gentoo/AMD64 developer |
| 28 |
-- |
| 29 |
gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
Archives