From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IScur-0002uw-QP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:14:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l84I6UBG032649; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:06:30 GMT Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (c-24-6-168-204.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.168.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l84I3QJS028460 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:03:26 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1339B17B8ACD for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:03:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at twi-31o2.org Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gravity.twi-31o2.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mce0O8VvDOhz for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.25] (dsl211-165-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [74.211.165.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6990217B8A71 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last Rites on slots (was: Re: Last Rites - August 27th - September 2nd 2007) From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20070903054919.GD7679@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> References: <46DAEA2B.50109@gentoo.org> <20070902200146.61d3a881@localhost> <20070902235628.GC7679@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> <46DB513C.7020704@gentoo.org> <20070903054919.GD7679@elladan.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-04zI5Kj5hxFLdcWAyuNj" Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:03:10 -0700 Message-Id: <1188928990.9884.3.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 X-Archives-Salt: 883d1421-adc0-4696-a070-28dd0a63e90b X-Archives-Hash: 9704f7542d61b37a9f13bcee99203d28 --=-04zI5Kj5hxFLdcWAyuNj Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 07:49 +0200, Lars Weiler wrote: > * Andrew Gaffney [07/09/02 19:11 -0500]: > > I'm not so sure. The last rites have historically always been for compl= ete=20 > > removals of a package from the tree. Is there any reason to change it? = Just=20 > > removing an older version of a package from the tree is something that=20 > > happens all the time. Do we want to clutter up the GWN (as much as it n= eeds=20 > > content sometimes) with this unimportant information? >=20 > Think about apache1, php4, KDE-3, gcc-2.95, etc. >=20 > IMHO they are worth being announced in the last rites > section, probably along with a nice upgrade-guide. No. Things like these should be listed in "Gentoo News" with a nice, full article. The Last Rites section is supposed to be nothing more than a list of upcoming package removals. All "important" news should still be done separately. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation --=-04zI5Kj5hxFLdcWAyuNj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBG3Z3ekT4lNIS36YERAj40AJ0W4t2C/UWiM7P2EqfEZheK9q8MHwCfRvaG /Tvmr7RSiPbRp+n3AfwLGGk= =a0FW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-04zI5Kj5hxFLdcWAyuNj-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list