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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: JD Horelick <jdhore1@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, pr@g.o, council@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: initramfs required on Linux systems with separate /usr
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:37:39
Message-Id: 20130926213731.GC25793@comet.hsd1.mn.comcast.net
1 On 11:03 Thu 26 Sep , JD Horelick wrote:
2 > My only issue here is that I feel like we should give users a bit longer
3 > than one month (34 days, close enough) to make this change. In some cases,
4 > it may require a large, architectural change which may take a while to be
5 > engineered and organized. I'd suggest making the cutoff for this January 1,
6 > 2014. I know that impedes our progress, but I feel it provides significant
7 > benefit to our users who may use seperate /usr.
8
9 In reality it should be more like 60 days before any of those users are
10 affected. We stop support in 30 days (which can't be done directly in
11 stable), then we test that in ~arch for the usual 30 days before
12 stabilizing.
13
14 --
15 Thanks,
16 Donnie
17
18 Donnie Berkholz
19 Council Member / Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux <http://dberkholz.com>
20 Analyst, RedMonk <http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/>