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2018-07-26 16:04 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>: |
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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 8:45 AM Grand Duet <grand.duet@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > Did this even impact the stable branch? |
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>> |
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>> Yes. |
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> |
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> Hmm, I suspect I didn't sync before it was reverted. Either that or I |
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> noticed the noise on the lists and waited a day. |
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> |
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> This is one issue with our news - it isn't really realtime. If we |
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> want people to hold the presses and re-sync they don't get that notice |
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> until they've already re-synced. |
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> |
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>> May be, adding some additional "almost stable" level between |
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>> "stable" and "unstable" one to make "stable" stable indeed? |
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> |
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> If anything it seems like the proposal to drop stable comes along |
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> every few years. I don't see anybody being eager to add another level |
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> of QA. A big practical issue would be that unless people are actually |
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> using the two lower levels significantly then nothing is actually |
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> getting checked before going to stable. |
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> |
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> There is really no reason you couldn't have a release-based Gentoo |
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> derivative. Everything is in git. All "somebody" needs to do is |
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> start a repo with a release-driven workflow that treats Gentoo as the |
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> upstream master branch, targeting changes for release branches and |
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> then doing release candidates and QA/etc. Then those release-based |
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> users would sync from there instead of the upstream Gentoo repo. |
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> Ideally somebody would bundle it with a reference binary repo that |
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> people could optionally sync from to speed installs for packages where |
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> they're not changing USE flags. |
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> The problem is that this all takes quite a bit of work, and I'm |
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> skeptical that it would ever happen. However, for larger Gentoo |
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> deployments in production environments I suspect most are doing things |
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> more-or-less in this fashion, but just with the packages they care |
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> about. If somebody has 100 production servers running Gentoo I doubt |
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> they are set to just sync from us. Rather they would set up their own |
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> mirror and carefully test portage snapshots before they go rolling |
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> them out. |
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Ok. Thank you for your reply. |
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