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On 16.06.2019 21:09, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 12:42 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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>> Last year we had a good initiative: it addition to (or even instead |
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>> of) manifests nominees were asked questions by voters. So let's |
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>> continue this year. |
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>> |
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>> I propose to have one question per thread spawned by this e-mail to |
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>> keep discussion focused. If you have multiple questions, please |
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>> start multiple threads. If your question was already asked, please |
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>> join a thread. |
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>> |
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> Some developers were recently complaining that we're turning Gentoo into |
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> a hobbyist distro and that's apparently bad. |
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> |
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> Do you think Gentoo should allow for experimental and unstable features, |
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> and possibly breaking changes that make Gentoo more interesting for |
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> hobbyists? Or should we block breaking changes and become more |
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> conservative for users who prefer stable distribution with minimal |
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> maintenance burden? |
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> |
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We must keep gentoo as stable as possible taking care of our production |
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users, I can speak of myself here, I am currently maintaining |
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computation clusters with > 1k units (all are under gentoo), and I would |
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not happy to see my cluster somehow affected by unstable features in the |
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mainline (neither would others I believe). |
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Still gentoo is the only meta distribution with freedom of choice, that |
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says we can really implement bleeding edge solutions with a separate |
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profile and something like "I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING=1" variable set in |
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the make.conf, the only question of implementation. |
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