Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

A few details.. I find '~stable:<arch>' a bit odd.. "unstable stable"

Maybe one year is still too short? I'd propose a much longer period (3
years), I understand that this is a lot of work for the infrastructure,
but even at 3 years, its max 12 ebuilds per package... 

And there should be an easy way to stay on an old release and just
update security fixes... And also, there should be a small team that
controls access to that tree in between releases. To make sure that only
essential stuff is committed and that enough QA is done.. Maybe just the
GLSA team or something. I have servers that have been running Debian
stable for years without updating anything outside security fixes.. and
Gentoo is not an option there if I can't have that kind of stability.
But I'm very excited about using Gentoo in those kind of situations too!

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
Gentoo Developer

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 16:17, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> All --
>
> I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable' tree
> in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains security
> and major bugfixes out of cycle.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0019.html
>
> Please take a moment to review the GLEP and offer any feedback or ask any
> questions.
>
> --kurt