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On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:36:11 +0100 |
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"Eric F. GARIOUD" <eric-f.garioud@×××××××.fr> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 21 March 2013 13:22:35 Tom Wijsman wrote: |
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> > As to address your question, it doesn't come down to intention but |
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> > rather to manpower. |
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> I appreciate this. |
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> However, when things go down to a problem of manpower, the very first |
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> initiative common sense commands is to avoid wasting it. |
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> And the first way I know to avoid wasting manpower is : |
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> - displaying intentions ! |
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> I have asked here, in 3.4.9 times, for the intentions of the |
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> gentoo-sources regarding the 3.4 LTS and was answered that it would |
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> not be followed. |
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Just like in last mail, I guess this was due to the lack of manpower; |
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now that I joined we have time to do the 3.x LTS branches (lately I |
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have been doing them all since I don't maintain that much packages |
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yet; maybe mpagano is taking a time off, not sure but he seems busy...). |
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> Fair enough, because I wanted the ck-sources to follow it, we made |
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> the job of reviewing all upstream's patches from 3.4.9 up to 3.4.18 |
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> and from there up to 3.4.23... and then discovered the gentoo-sources |
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> catching up from 3.4.9 to 3.4.24. |
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Times have changed, bumps for everything in 3.x we are following. :) |
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> Of course I do not blame anybody for this, after all, each to his own. |
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> However, the result of this is that we (as GS+CK) have almost |
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> certainly achieved a great part of the dirty job twice ! |
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Okay, I see where you are getting at; seems like this is also due to |
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the nature of the kernel being split over multiple packages instead of |
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using a single package with multiple USE flags. I've been wondering if |
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there would be a benefit changing this model to ensure there is no lost |
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manpower (regardless of the actual patches, we're also duplicating the |
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kernel bumps / stabilization / ... as well). |
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> Hence my first question regarding the gentoo-sources project's |
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> intentions regarding the 3.6 and 3.7 branches. |
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We won't touch them apart from important bug fixes and root privilege |
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escalation security issues; but if you are willing to fix all the |
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security bugs, we could make them available in genpatches to benefit |
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everyone. Combining multiple security bug fixes together in each |
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genpatch release then could make it accessible in revision bumps |
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across all sources in and out of the tree. |
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> Regards, |
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> Eric |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D |
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