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On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:12 -0500, Olivier Fisette wrote: |
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> - They would like to coordinate the publication of their Gentoo Linux 2007.1 |
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> magazine edition with the release of Gentoo 2007.1. Ideally, the articles |
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> would need to be ready three weeks before our release. However, it would also |
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...not gonna happen. For one, we don't *ever* have our release done 3 |
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weeks before we ship it. We pretty much release it the second it's |
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completed. |
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> I am interested in helping out (writing, translating, reviewing articles), and |
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> would appreciate if the PR-team was involved. Also, those interested in |
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> contributing would need to be informed of the planned release date to set up |
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> deadlines for articles. Since December is around the corner, I also wonder if |
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> there will be a 2007.1 at all. Without any release plan information |
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> available, I am reluctant to commit myself further. |
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There is no plan. There are no dates. Any dates we ever give out are |
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completely guesses and fairly arbitrary. We have not _ever_ met our |
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dates, published or not. I really wish people would understand that the |
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only date that can be accurate is the initial snapshot. Beyond that, it |
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is 100% up to the state of the tree and the number of security bugs that |
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arise during the release cycle. We're currently modifying the snapshot |
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due to the extremely large number of security bugs we've been getting. |
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As such, our snapshot is becoming quite stale compared to the tree. |
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We're working as hard as we can to get things done as fast as we can, |
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but we're unfortunately at the mercy of teh Intarnets and UPSTREAM. Our |
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current plans are to release as soon as we have something. However, if |
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that timeframe slips much more, we are likely dropping the release |
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entirely. This is because I am not going to have my guys slaving away |
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through the holidays and with the original snapshot being taken on |
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October 19th, a new snapshot would need to be made. In other words, |
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we'd have to start over. If we're starting over, we'd just wait a |
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couple months and start on 2008.0, instead. |
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I hope this helps give you an idea of the pressures we're under and |
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sheds some light on our inability to provide hard dates. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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