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All, |
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Here is the vanilla-sources non stablizing policy news item. |
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If all goes well, this will be committed to the tree on 08/07 UTC. |
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Title: vanilla-sources stabilization policy |
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Author: Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2013-08-07 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/vanilla-sources |
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The Gentoo Kernel Team will no longer be providing stable vanilla-sources |
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kernels. All currently stabilized vanilla-sources versions will be dropped |
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to ~arch. The Arch teams, via normal requests of the Kernel Team, will |
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continue to stabilize gentoo-sources kernels upon request. This decision is |
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based on the facts that upstream is now releasing approximately 1-2 vanilla- |
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sources kernels a week. Arch teams, understandable, are unable to keep up with |
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this rate of release. As most vanilla releases contain security fixes, the |
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user who only runs stable vanilla-sources will consistently be behind and |
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potentially at risk. For the latest upstream non Gentoo patched vanilla |
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kernel, we recommend user add 'sys-kernel/vanilla-sources' to their |
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package.accept_keywords file. Gentoo-sources will continue to be a tested and |
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supported version for Gentoo users. |
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Note: This news item only applies to gentoo-sources and vanilla-sources. Other |
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kernels currently maintained in portage have their own policies and procedures |
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in place today. |
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Mike Pagano |
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Gentoo Developer - Kernel Project |
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E-Mail : mpagano@g.o |
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