On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 20:40 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote:
> Thilo Bangert napsal(a):
> > this seems to come up more often than you like. is this the release 
> > tracker bug?
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156814
> > 
> > kind regards
> > Thilo
> 
> 
> Yeah. It's restricted to developers only, though, so not much useful for
> users. :)

Yeah, I did that because we had users adding their favorite apps to the
snapshot tracker, which had absolutely no place there.  All in all, we
have found that things seem to work best when we just hide in our little
corner of IRC, shut up, and work.  We use the tracker bug during the
initial snapshot phase since we're reporting bugs in the tree.  Once
we've taken the snapshot, however, we don't use bugs since many of them
are fixed in the tree, but not in our snapshot.  Currently, I keep track
of the release via a spreadsheet, but I've been working towards getting
a project tracking software package setup and configured to replace this
functionality.  Of course, that tracker won't be public.  It's much
simpler to answer the few questions we get than it is to answer the
floods of questions we *used* to get when we posted dates everywhere.
The nature of the tree simply makes it impossible for us to accurately
estimate a release date.  This release we even went so far as to create
a completely new snapshot due to there being so many changes necessary
in our original one and the packages getting too stale.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation