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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:37:28
Message-Id: 20100704133949.0cda055a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo by Fabio Erculiani
1 On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:17:25 +0200
2 Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > How are we supposed to handle the amount of installations out there
5 > that are using OpenRC then?
6 > OpenRC/bl-2 have proven to be a big improvement over the old stuff. I
7 > am for fixing current bugs, and keep it maintenance mode at least.
8 > I'm already spread over several things but I could give a hand to
9 > other devs willing to take over.
10
11
12 http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_21f716d5ffa6f04520e39d12fbe43452.xml
13
14 > The only reason why OpenRC has not come up for stabilization by it's
15 > maintainers is the fact that everytime there's a new version readied
16 > for release, on the horizon there's new incompatible changes being
17 > planned for the next version. The OpenRC maintainers in Gentoo have
18 > always chosen to wait until OpenRC settles down a little bit. Now with
19 > the plan to drop support for certain features (ADSL and PPP support in
20 > the networking code), it's going to rewrite more Gentoo people to step
21 > up to develop and maintain this code.
22
23
24 I would say it's settled down now.
25
26 I don't think stable can wait another 2-3 years on baselayout-1 while we
27 switch to yet another rc system.
28
29
30 --
31 fonts, gcc-porting, and it's all by design
32 toolchain, wxwidgets to keep us from losing our minds
33 @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo "Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@g.o>