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Bart Braem posted <e3f37g$uqo$1@×××××××××.org>, excerpted below, on Fri, |
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05 May 2006 10:43:28 +0200: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> Bart Braem wrote: |
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>>> Xorg 7: 5 months |
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>> Can't stabilize till portage 2.1 is stable. Doesn't matter how many open |
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>> bugs we've got, or how well it works. |
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> Thanks for the explanation. Not that I really like it but I understand |
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> that portage 2.1 is a large upgrade... |
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That of course begs the question of portage 2.1 stabilization. |
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FWIW, as a (mostly) lurker on the portage-devel group/list, I believe |
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it's safe to say that 2.1-rcs are "coming real soon now". There's an |
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active discussion at the moment on whether to base -rc1 on -pre10, which |
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introduced some code cleanups, -pre9, before those cleanups but after the |
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intro of manifest2 (a big target feature that needs included, but that |
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will mean a bit longer to stabilize), or -pre7, before manifest2. Whatever |
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the decision, portage trunk is now feature-frozen until the split is made, |
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so the 2.1 stabilization process is now started. |
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The target is stabilization of 2.1 for Gentoo 2006.1, penciled in for |
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release this (northern hemisphere) summer (July-ish, AFAIK). Assuming |
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that target is hit, Donnie should be able to say whether xorg 7 should |
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stabilize at the same time and be ready for 2006.1 as well, or whether |
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it'll be slightly behind, perhaps 30-days or so -- IOW, whether its 30 day |
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stabilization is in parallel to or occurs after the 30-day stabilization |
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of portage 2.1. |
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In any case, given his statement above and the events from portage-devel, |
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a reasonably safe prediction should be that they'll both be stable by the |
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end of the (northern hemisphere) summer, with a target of mid-summer. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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