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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Sonntag, 15. April 2007, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: |
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>> The mailing list is still active, |
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>> but the lack of a current release seems to indicate that the Gentoo |
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>> project is no longer truly active. |
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>> Thanks in advance, |
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>> Tom Veldhouse |
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> a) gentoo is not about releases. |
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I understand that. BUT ... it was announced long ago that there was a |
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quarterly release plan starting in 2005. It was followed for only one year? |
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> b) the 1.4 release took ages. |
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Indeed ... and then came the apparently aborted plan to do quarterly |
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releases. |
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> c) the real indicator of activity is the amount of changes in the portage |
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> tree. And surprise! There is the usual high amount of updated, removed or new |
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> ebuilds. |
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Yes, not an indicator of quality or progress, just commits. |
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> d) if you want more releases, become a dev and join rel-eng. |
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I don't necessarily want more releases. I DO want to know what happened |
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to the release schedule. |
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> e) if you look here you'll see that the gentoo-dev ml is as active as always |
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> in the last couple of years. |
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> http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&r=1&w=2 |
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Good to hear. |
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Tom Veldhouse |
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