Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: Gentoo as hobbyist distro

[Mikle Kolyada]

On 19.06.2019 18:45, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 09:24:10AM +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
>> We must keep gentoo as stable as possible taking care of our production
>> users, I can speak of myself here, I am currently maintaining
>> computation clusters with > 1k units (all are under gentoo), and I would
>> not happy to see my cluster somehow affected by unstable features in the
>> mainline (neither would others I believe).
>>
>> Still gentoo is the only meta distribution with freedom of choice, that
>> says we can really implement bleeding edge solutions with a separate
>> profile and something like "I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING=1" variable set in
>> the make.conf, the only question of implementation.
> As I said in my last message on this thread, the stable tree is supposed
> to be for that, so if your cluster is using fully stable packages I
> would be concerned about this.
The question implied nothing about stability of the existing tree, so I
decided to emphasize (just in case) that stable state should be kept
whatever we do. Some people just get paid for gentoo at work, that is
where I was concerned.


>
> Is that what you are doing, or are you using ~ keywords for any of the
> packages?

Some gentoo packages I use simply do not have stable keywords, that is
where I am using testing ones sometimes.

Normally, as a member of (almost) all arch teams I push testing packages
ahead and mark them stable once I am sure there is no bugs.


>
> Willia