On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:59:06 -0500 Joshua Kinard <ku...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Once we complete the git migration, why not take a second look on > using a stable/testing/unstable (or -RELEASE/-STABLE/-CURRENT) system > used by Debian and FreeBSD? That should be entirely doable under a > git tree versus CVS. It would require beefing releng up again and a > whole host of other issues. > > Keep the core git tree constantly rolling forward, have a dedicated > branch get cut say, once a year (or less -- Debian is ~18mo?), > another group of devs works on stabilizing that (and periodically > cherrypicking from the master branch), and when the time comes, > totally freeze that for security revs only by a smaller group of devs? Personally, one of the things that I love about Gentoo is that I never have to deal with EVERYTHING changing all at once. Sure, things may change more often through the year than they do with staged releases, but it’s all spread out over the year, so that in any given week, what changes is a nice, bite-sized chunk of my system, so that I can easily isolate and deal with any problems—rather than a staged release that upgrades 150 packages, leaving a dozen things broken and no idea where to start looking. Also, from a more pragmatic point of view, I don’t particularly want to have to *compile* a year’s worth of new packages at one moment in time—better to spend an hour here, an hour there, spread out over the weeks. -- Christopher Head
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