Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The road ahead...
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:23:36
Message-Id: 200510231226.04682.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] The road ahead... by Marius Mauch
1 On Friday 21 October 2005 19:06, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > Jason Stubbs wrote:
3 > > After thinking about it, incremental "feature creep" does seem like the
4 > > best way to go at this late stage in 2.0's life. The problem is how to
5 > > guage what is and what is not more trouble than worth. Perhaps adhering
6 > > to the kernel's rule of "Separate each logical change into its own patch"
7 > > would help to ease the possible impact of larger changes?
8 >
9 > Probably the best solution.
10
11 So we're all agreed then?
12
13 * 2.x will never go beyond 2.0
14 * New features are considered on a case by case basis
15 * New features can be integrated whenever they're ready (and we're not
16 stabalizing or the feature doesn't aid stabalizing)
17 * Major changes need to be split up
18
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20 Jason Stubbs
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