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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 05:02:32AM +0200, Tony Clark wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03.33, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> 1. What is Gentoo 1.4. What it may have been intended to be in January is |
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> probably not what it is going to be now. Before you recruit all and sundry |
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> you have to define this as if it isn't defined everything will fall down and |
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> chaos will return. Some basic things I see is that it needs to be are: |
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> gcc3.3 based |
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> glibc2.3.2 |
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> openssl0.9.7 |
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We can do this if you want to wait another couple of months. |
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Unfortunately, there are some requests to have 1.4 ready for LWESF at |
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the beginning of August. |
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This is not viable. The tree is not gcc3.3-ready and OpenSSL 0.9.7 needs |
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a much more mature upgrade path, otherwise there will be serious |
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breakage (you need to remerge wget without ssl support, then merge the |
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new openssl, then rebuild everything depending on it currently). |
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> 2. What are the core applications. Is it a desktop, a server orinitated |
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> system or a system compremised to do both. I would suggest desktop as I |
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> think thats what it is mainly used for, but I don't have the stats so I could |
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> be well off the mark. (Market research required) |
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I don't understand what you mean by 'core applications' in this context. |
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> 3. What platform should be supported at release time. Here I think x86 and |
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> maybe x86-64. Targeting too many will just delay it. Have some other dates |
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> for the rest to follow. |
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We target all platforms that're release-ready. Right now, that's x86, |
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ppc, and sparc. Release-ready means the tree is prepped, the stages and |
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LiveCDs can be built, install documents are up on the site. |
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> These are just really fundementals but until the requirements are documented |
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> things will never really come together. |
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> Get things out in the open. Gentoo-core is probably the worst idea someone |
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> ever came up with, OSS development is meant to be a very transparent process. |
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> Make it transparent. I know there are always private issues but if they |
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> involve more than 3 people then perhaps they should be public. |
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We are making it transparent by discussing development on gentoo-dev. |
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