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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:27:15PM +0100 or thereabouts, Matt Steven wrote: |
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> If Gentoo is going in the direction of providing releases on schedule, |
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> ensuring one release has certain versions of certain programs and isn't |
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> interfered with by future releases, can it be done without cutting away the |
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> flexibility? |
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Yes, absolutely. Users can choose which method they want to use. |
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> Are we going to have a gentoo-1.4-enterprise, gentoo-2.0-enterprise etc |
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> portage tree, each release being maintained independent of the others? |
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Not defined yet. |
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> I think Gentoo does so well at staying up to date because the developers are |
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> the users, they all want the latest XYZ so someone writes an ebuild and in a |
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> flash there it is. Will there be the same level of volenteer motivation |
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> toward maintaining the security patches on a two year old release? |
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Probably not, but nobody is suggesting supporting one release for 2+ years. |
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> Making an 'enterprise' Gentoo will require a solid plan of action that will |
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> enable people to sell it to management, some sort of guarantee, and I look |
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> forward to hearing how all that will work. |
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See GLEP 19 for one suggestion: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0019.html |
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If other folks have different ideas about how to implement this, please |
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feel free to share them as well. |
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--kurt |