RE: [gentoo-dev] perl again

["Riyad Kalla" <rsk@u.arizona.edu>]

Yes you have a good point. I'll just bootstap my system, then wait a few
days before emerge kde'ing (so I don't have to compile it 2wice, which
takes slightly longer than eternity)

Best,
-Riyad

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Carter [mailto:knghtbrd@efn.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:45 PM
To: Riyad Kalla
Cc: mcummings@datanode.net; 'Tony Clark'; gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl again


On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:23:42PM -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote:
> Tommorow? So no waiting for KDE? If you guys do release on the 14th,
> that's one day after 3.1 comes out, talk about cutting it close! :)

If I bring one pearl of wisdom from years of involvement with Debian, it
is that you should NEVER hold up the release of something like a Linux
distribution for someone else's product which is due "any day now", even
if that date has been set in stone.

The reasons for this are many and include:

 - Release dates slip, you could be waiting longer than anticipated.
The
   development team is confident that Gentoo will be ready for release
on
   the 14th.  It should release then if it is!  If other things will
come
   along later, then so be it.  It's easyer to add something as an
upgrade
   to what's already released than to hold up the entire release while
it
   is integrated.
 - It's not like you can "just wait a few days more" for it; there's QA
   issues to contend with.  Is the software ready for everyone?  The
   people who released it may think so, but as always Gentoo would need
to
   do its own testing to make sure it does not bork your system for you.
 - If the release is delayed for every "just one more thing" that comes
   along, then a release will never happen.  (Of course, observance of
   this does not seem to help Debian release any faster than if they had
   added every little thing along the way, but I digress quickly..  *g*)

-- 
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@efn.org>                     glDisable
(DX8_CRAP);
 
We've upped our standards, so up yours!



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