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I'll start by saying that I appreciate all the work the Gentoo developers |
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do, and by no means have any animosity for them for this, |
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Here's an example of how 4.19.97 being stabilized might have exposed users |
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to functionality breaking bugs: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706036 |
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Took me several hours to figure out why several of my machines weren't |
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working right. |
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Honestly I'd rather see the 30 day stabilization policy apply to LTS |
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kernels vs. being stabilized faster. Maybe I'm once bitten twice shy. |
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As an aside: The gentoo bug tracker has way too many open bugs (Thousands |
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and thousands of them opened over 10 years ago), and the search interface |
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is... frustrating. Took me over 5 minutes to find that bug despite being a |
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commenter on it. Does anyone know if there's any plans for that situation |
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to change in any way? |
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:56 AM Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> That doesn't apply to the kernel. |
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> 4.19.97 got tagged on January 17. |
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> January 18. it was stable on amd64 and x86 - one day instead of 30. |
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> Here is the stabilization request: https://bugs.gentoo.org/705006 |
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> There were some issues and changes to the targeted versions. |
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> Am Fr., 7. Feb. 2020 um 19:18 Uhr schrieb Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o |
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> >: |
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>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 10:23 PM Matt Connell <matthewdconnell@×××××.com> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> > On 2020-02-06 11:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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>> > > 5.4 has just become the newest LTS. |
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>> > I see that now. But my original question still stands as to why the |
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>> > stable version of gentoo-sources is consistently a few versions behind |
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>> > the latest LTS release. |
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>> Typically, Gentoo maintainers leave new versions in ~arch for some |
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>> time so they can be tested by a broad set of people. Stabilization |
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>> bugs are normally not filed until a given version has spent at least |
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>> 30 days in ~arch. |
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>> See GLEP 40 for details on this process. |
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>> https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0040.html |
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