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On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 08:21 +0100, Denis Dupeyron wrote: |
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> What do you think of a simplified handbook ? One that presents a lot |
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> fewer choices to the user, in order to be less confusing. I don't mean |
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> replacing the current handbook which is one great piece of work, but |
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> writing a "Gentoo in 10 easy steps" kind of guide. |
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> One of us may even have written one already. If not, I'm willing to |
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> write or help writing one if that's considered a good idea. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml |
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I'm not chiming in on the rest of the thread right now, since I am about |
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to head on a plane and won't be available for a bit, but to put it |
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simply, I have no plans on releasing *any* kind of nightly *anything* so |
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long as Release Engineering still gets minimal testing from only a |
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*tiny* subset of our developer pool when we are basically *begging* for |
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it. I'm not expecting the level of required testing to diminish just |
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because we do more builds, and in fact I expect it to increase. With |
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the current participation level, I just don't see it as possible. |
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Remember, we switched from quarterly to bi-annual releases for a reason. |
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We simply didn't have the man power, CPU power, nor time to do vigorous |
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enough testing in the much more shortened time frame. I'm going to be |
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asking for Release Testers again once I return, and if last year's turn |
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out was any indicator (50+ people volunteering, about 5 actually helping |
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*at all*), the chances of a project such as nightly builds ever taking |
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off is well beyond our means at this time. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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