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On 9/2/06, Wiktor Wandachowicz <siryes@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I suppose that there is a way that Gentoo can follow, only that its leaders, |
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> developers and users need to see it clearly. Is there a publicly visible |
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> page that contains current goals for new releases? Where all sub-project |
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> leaders could add their own goals, coherent with the general vision? |
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> I couldn't find it, but maybe I haven't looked in the right places? |
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The problem I see is that for Gentoo the releases are not really |
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useful milestones for most projects. A release is really significant |
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for a few core packages, but what is the real downside for users if |
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Xorg 7.2 is stabilized one week after a release? Outside of the fact |
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that they have to compile it themselves instead of using the GRP |
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package...not much that I see. |
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For a distro like Ubuntu, a release is very significant, as it is the |
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platform that users will be running for the next 6-18 months. |
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Do you think Ubuntu roadmaps would be useful without being tied to a |
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release? Or could project status reports (as discussed here recently) |
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fit the same bill? |
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> Maybe I should raise such concerns to the User Representatives first |
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No, definitely not. The point of user reps (of which I am one) is not |
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to filter communications between devs and users, but to improve the |
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communications between the two camps, among other things. If you want |
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to bring an idea up here directly, nobody should respond with "talk to |
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your userrep". |
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-Richard |
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