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On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 02:20 -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: |
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> There is a bit of contradiction in what you said there. |
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> Either the package is well tested, and should go into the tree, first |
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> with ~arch keywords, and then eventually with arch keywords, or |
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> it is experimental, and as such has to be outside of our main tree. |
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Well take Tomcat 6.0.x for example. I followed it's development and did |
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many bumps over 3-4 months or so, from 6.0.2 to 6.0.10. Several in |
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between went alpha, a few betas. They wanted to do several releases, but |
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kept finding bugs or etc. That delayed a the release and caused them to |
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do another bump on package version. Which after all that will likely be |
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some time before they release > 6.0.10 :) |
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Now sure if any Gentoo users contributed in that process. But at the |
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same time, I would like to give those using this stuff as much notice |
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as possible. So they can test in their own envs. Keep in mind most of |
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this is server stuff. Most will want to test for some time before it |
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gets deployed to a production env. |
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From watching user comments on the developers list. Many are still |
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running Tomcat 5.0.28 since there were issues in 5.5.x that were not |
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resolved for years till 5.5.23 was released a few weeks ago. |
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WRT Gentoo, part of the idea behind following upstream that closely. |
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Allows us to hopefully identify any issues ahead of time. So when |
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upstream does an official release. We can bump package, wait 30 days and |
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stabilize. Without that being dragged out due to bug discoveries, and |
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waiting for upstream to react after the fact. |
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Tomcat did go unmaintained for about a year or so. Also trying to make |
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up for that. Letting people know it will be active maintained. Which |
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hopefully will encourage them to use Gentoo for their Java Server |
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platform or etc. |
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> Thus you can either want to test stuff by giving it more exposure, |
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> which implies the stuff is experimental, or you have stable stuff, |
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> but then you shouldn't be talking about the development cycle of the |
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> said software. |
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Any version of say Tomcat or mod_jk, I have put into tree before |
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official release has been stable for me. Idea is to find out if it's |
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stable for others as well. So while it's official status cause it to |
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fall into experimental category. Most have no issues, and bugs do not |
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tend to be very obvious or commonly run into. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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