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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Autobuilds go to /experimental and to /releases only when someone actually tests them
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 04:13:30
Message-Id: 51F348F1.8030707@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Autobuilds go to /experimental and to /releases only when someone actually tests them by Matt Turner
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4 On 07/27/2013 12:08 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
5 > (I sent this to gentoo-releng@. Resending to gentoo-dev@ for a wider audience)
6 >
7 > Can we make autobuilds go to /experimental and then only move them to
8 > /releases when someone actually tests them?
9 >
10 > Looking at bugzilla and listening in #gentoo-releng, it's kind of
11 > embarrassing how often someone downloads a Live CD only to find out
12 > that networking is totally broken by a udev upgrade, or something to
13 > that effect.
14 >
15 > We don't commit version bumps straight to stable; I don't see why we
16 > do with release media.
17 >
18
19 It's been an odd week for me agreeing with people but yeah, I completely
20 agree. I think we *need* to keep the autobuilds going as often as
21 possible to detect obvious breakage, but there is no reason they
22 shouldn't be marked experimental.
23
24 The real question is, how realistic can we make a process of testing and
25 moving to stable?
26
27 - -Zero
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