On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:33 +0000, Steve Long wrote: > > In any event, what I'd like to raise is the issue of having a > > (semi-)official version of gentoo that lags behind the cutting-edge distro > > for stability. Is this feasible? > > > > Apologies if this is already being discussed elsewhere. > > > I appreciate that there is GLEP 19 according to earlier discussion on this > list (from 2004). > > I guess I'm asking whether it's a) more feasible now (I'm guessing yes) and
It isn't. > b) whether it's something that would have any support from current devs. Probably not, considering even the people that were proponents of GLEP19 have dropped support for it. Personally, I would prefer seeing my "release trees" idea take off. Essentially, it freezes the tree at a certain point (which I just coincide with our releases). Updates are security-only. Now, this doesn't mean that *everything* must remain this way. For example, there could be a 2007.0-r1 "tree" or something which is 2007.0's tree, with some major bug fixes. The real question is how much manpower would it take to maintain such a tree and how much use would "normal" users get out of it, as opposed to "enterprise" users? I'm thinking of releasing a tarball for a "release tree" next time around, just to see how it flies. The main question I have is whether we'll have time. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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