Roy Marples wrote: > On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 11:48 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: >> (GDP): you give us the info, we'll document it for you. Or I will at least. > > Well, the changes are as outlined in my first email. > The user changes are mainly a few variables in the /etc/conf.d/* files > that baselayout ships. For example a few have been removed and a few > have been added, and a few have changed.
Yeah, I planned on doing some heavy reading of the new stuff, but I hope I can get you all alone (heh heh heh) for awhile to go over questions that will surely pop up. In case things like new networking configs aren't intuitive, or whatever. >> 3) How long will 1.x be kept stable? (This affects how long the old >> instructions are in the handbooks etc.) > > Good question. We normally keep at least one major revision prior to the > current stable in the tree. They can stay in the tree indefinitely I > suppose, but the GDP should only follow the current stable. Maybe > archive the handbook? Archiving the handbook isn't possible. The only thing we archive for historical purposes are the networkless handbooks, in /doc/en/handbook/2006.0/, 2006.1/, etc. I'm thinking that if baselayout-2 is the way of the future, then as soon as it's stabled for all arches (see below for a bit more) then we should pretty much just document that exclusively in all handbooks & docs. That's where a migration guide will be so crucial. Since the thing can't be slotted, and it's a forced upgrade (short of masking, but BAH to those users that do it), I don't think we need to document two completely different systems if they're both stable. >> 5) Do you have a rough estimate (month, 3 weeks, 5 weeks, what?) on when >> the first arches might be stabilizing 2.x? > > No. > If the RC's prove stable and no serious regressions are reported for a > month then we'll probably release a final 2.0.0 and get arch teams to > mark stable a week later, or right away if no last minute changes have > been made. What'd really be nice is if it goes stable for all arches (or at least all of the ones that matter, subjectively) either in time or after the next release. Otherwise, there's going to be some more complications from users who install from media containing old baselayout-1.x and have to deal with the new 2.x right away. I guess we'll see. /me pokes wolf31o2. ;) > Most of the documentation should still apply. I've tried to be as > compatible as possible - the one possible exception being networking as > baselayout-1 used bash arrays extensively. But we still support that > if /bin/sh is bash, which it is by default for Gentoo/Linux Yeah. Though I still don't know the whole story, I anticipate that updating the networking configs will be the biggest headache.
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