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On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 17:39 +0100, Alex Howells wrote: |
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> I think the concept is pretty neat and would make the final release proceed |
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> with a bit more dignity, a few less bugs, and lots less ohShits<TM>. What's |
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> the date for bringing the new hardware (AMD) into commission, if it's soon, |
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> would it be worth building the pre-release on there too? Test the new stuff? |
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The new hardware should be up before too long, but that doesn't help our |
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non-x86/amd64 release-building friends. |
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Basically, we wouldn't delay this just because the hardware might not be |
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ready, simply because the hardware isn't usable by all the releasing |
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architectures, and I try my best to be fair to everyone. |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Chris Gianelloni [mailto:wolf31o2@g.o] |
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> Sent: 16 May 2005 14:47 |
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> To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-releng] 2005.1 "pre-release" |
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> So I was thinking the other day... yeah, I know... me thinking... what's |
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> the world coming to anyway? Back on topic... heh... So I was thinking |
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> the other day that it would be a good idea for us to prepare a 2005.1 |
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> "pre-release" of sorts. I was thinking that we decide on a snapshot |
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> date, say sometime next week, then we make a snapshot and build a full |
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> release from it. This should help iron out any issues we will have with |
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> the release. This pre-release will also be something that we can allow |
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> limited access to for user testing. |
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> So what does everybody think? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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