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On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:17:25 +0200 |
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Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote: |
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> How are we supposed to handle the amount of installations out there |
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> that are using OpenRC then? |
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> OpenRC/bl-2 have proven to be a big improvement over the old stuff. I |
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> am for fixing current bugs, and keep it maintenance mode at least. |
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> I'm already spread over several things but I could give a hand to |
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> other devs willing to take over. |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_21f716d5ffa6f04520e39d12fbe43452.xml |
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> The only reason why OpenRC has not come up for stabilization by it's |
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> maintainers is the fact that everytime there's a new version readied |
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> for release, on the horizon there's new incompatible changes being |
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> planned for the next version. The OpenRC maintainers in Gentoo have |
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> always chosen to wait until OpenRC settles down a little bit. Now with |
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> the plan to drop support for certain features (ADSL and PPP support in |
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> the networking code), it's going to rewrite more Gentoo people to step |
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> up to develop and maintain this code. |
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I would say it's settled down now. |
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I don't think stable can wait another 2-3 years on baselayout-1 while we |
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switch to yet another rc system. |
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fonts, gcc-porting, and it's all by design |
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toolchain, wxwidgets to keep us from losing our minds |
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