Re: [gentoo-dev] 2004.2 Feature Requests

[John Davis]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 23:42, John Davis wrote:
> Hi all -
> To start preparing for 2004.2 in July, releng is opening up Feature
> Requests that the community would like to see included in 2004.2. The
> last day that we are accepting requests is Friday, May 7th at which
> point releng will hold a meeting and decide which requests are feasible
> for both the alloted time and workload. Thank you for your time and your
> requests.
>
> Cheers,
> //zhen

Ok, sorry for the lag in response, I had 2 exams today plus I am
fighting a cold. I will try to answer all of the questions :) If I
forget any, please send jforman my way with a baseball bat, he loves
that type of thing.

First, if your request is a package inclusion request (such as distcc,
netcat) please bug it on bugs.gentoo.org and assign it to
release@g.o. These requests are rather trivial to implement, so a
full blown feature request is not needed. Necessary dicussion can be
carried out on bugs.gentoo.org.

Next, the release schedule. There are a couple of ways to go about this.
I think Daniel built an end of the year/ holiday break into the release
schedule when he first came up with the quarterly schedule. The break
from (late) October -> January/ February is meant to accomodate this.
Personally, I think it is a good idea as it gives us all time to
re-group, spend time with family, and perhaps hack in our spare time on
the harder features, etc. Of course, if people want to change this, we
can change the release cycle so that the big break is over the summer
and the regular 2 month cycle at the end of the year. Alternatively, we
could redo the schedule so that those extra months at the end of the
year are reabsorbed into the schedule to space out all of the releases
equally. I am very open to ideas, so please provide your input.

Portage enhancements are a tough one. I know that genone has emerge
security almost there and GPG manifest signing is somewhere in the
middle (need verification here). The problem in making these release
guidelines is the fact that they are totally dependent on 2 people's
time and work. Releng does not have control over whether or not these
can be completed, so putting them on the feature list usually ends up
being an exercise in futility. If some people are willing to help out
carpaski and genone, then I will add it to the list, but if they are
left implementing and testing these two rather substantial features
themselves, I am not adding them to the list.

Ok, that should cover it, thanks for the input and please keep at it :)

Cheers,
//zhen
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John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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