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In all fairness, there haven't been that much incidents with Portage in |
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the past under Zac's supervision, isn't it a bit overkill to |
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bureaucratise the release model just after one incident? It appears to |
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me that changes to Portage need to be considered very carefully, always, |
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since it affects everyone. |
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Thanks, |
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Fabian |
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On 05-10-2021 10:31:40 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hi, everyone. |
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> I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent |
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> FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS |
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> branch of Portage. |
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> |
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> Roughly, the idea is that: |
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> - master becomes 3.1.x, and primary development happens there |
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> - 3.0.x becomes the LTS branch and only major bugfixes are backported |
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> there |
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> As things settle down in the future, master would become 3.2.x, 3.1.x |
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> would become LTS, 3.0.x will be discontinued and so on. |
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> WDYT? |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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