Archaic wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:43:57AM +0100, TheOldFellow wrote: > >>I don't think we have the manpower to maintain two mainstream LFS books. > > > Agreed, but even then the cross book is much more than one book. If > cross doesn't stabilize shortly after 6.1, then I see no reason to not > release a 6.2. Sure there won't be much hurrah about it, but it will be > a new version taken straight off trunk.
I agree with you on this. I think there must be a release every two-three months to maintain 'visibility', if nothing else - but it's good practice to do a 'clean ship' for a release regularly. > As far as help with the new stuff, we definitely need testers who own > ppc, ppc64, sparc, mips, and x86_64. As I have time I'm poking along the > ppc stuff with jhuntwork (who is also working on sparc), while Jim works > on mips. Then of course there is Ryan who is always working on all of > them (lucky dog). ;) So yes, man power is short. > I wish I could help with the exotic arches too. I only have x86 (Pentium MMX and Athlon XP), but I do try to build the book(s) regularly on these. I only report problems though. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
