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On pon, 2017-07-31 at 18:13 -0400, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> On 07/31/2017 10:15 AM, William Hubbs wrote:> All, |
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> > The next Gentoo Council meeting is on Sunday, aug 13 at 18:00 UTC in the |
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> > #gentoo-council channel on freenode. |
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> > Please reply to this message with any items you would like us to discuss |
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> > or vote on. |
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> <snip> |
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> I would like to submit the following for the council to discuss and vote |
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> upon. |
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> At the moment, we have a capacity problem around kernel stabilization. |
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> Upstream kernels are released at an extremely high rate and the Gentoo |
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> Kernel Maintainers do their best to release them shortly thereafter. |
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> Sometimes, arch teams are not able to respond to stablereqs in a timely |
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> manner. This is not a complaint on their efforts, just a description of |
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> what happens often for arch teams that are stressed to capacity. |
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> When the motivation for a STABLEREQ is a high severity security bug |
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> (e.g. root exploit), this delay in stabilization results in us having to |
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> keep exploitable kernels in the tree in order not to drop the latest |
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> stable for a specific architecture. |
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> The procedure outlined below allows for auto-stabilization of minor |
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> bumps by the Gentoo kernel team for any previously stabled major version |
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> kernel.[1] |
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> I welcome discussion, better ideas or anything else that makes |
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> everyone's lives easier and user's systems more secure. |
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I'm not sure if this is really something for the Council to discuss. |
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Sounds like a regular problem that's best dealt either with arch teams |
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directly or on gentoo-dev. |
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<private hat> |
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I don't mind stabilizing new minor releases automatically but I'd prefer |
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if they were at least build-tested with the default config once. |
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However, I doubt anybody's going to shoot you if you take |
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the responsibility for your actions and don't break anything important |
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in the process. |
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</private hat> |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |