Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

[David Leverton]

On Thursday 19 June 2008 01:23:33 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> Considering that the "most recent official release" is 2008.0_beta2, I
> don't see where you have a point, at all.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/#doc_chap5

"The latest release of Gentoo Linux is:

"Gentoo Linux 2007.0 for Alpha, AMD64, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC, S390, SH, SPARC, 
and x86 architectures. "

2007.0 is also the first version listed at 
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml

The point is to avoid breaking Portage versions that users might reasonably be 
using, even if only briefly.  Do you really expect /all/ users doing a new 
installation to choose the scary beta instead of the nice safe release?  
Perhaps we all know that the beta is better because it's so much more up to 
date.  Maybe it's even just as stable, if not more so (I wouldn't know, I 
haven't tried it).  But as long as it's labelled "beta", at least some people 
are going to avoid it in favour of 2007.0, and breaking the tree for those 
people such that they can't upgrade is unacceptable.
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