From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEaU4-0000lM-CA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:20:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7158E082B; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out2.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98312E082B for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF856D063 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:20:52 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Seeking questions for a user survey; releng related From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <478BE26C.5040202@gentoo.org> References: <20080114123348.GH5504@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20080114214427.GC7096@supernova> <478BE26C.5040202@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:50:48 +0930 Message-Id: <1200360048.12251.25.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 66bf0611-d00b-4c09-9419-6d65e2e1f5b7 X-Archives-Hash: ca306a81559dcceb441eb2b9797b9d19 On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 16:30 -0600, Brent Baude wrote: > If the topic of frequent releases is put onto the survey, I would like > to know what users anticipate as part of the new releases because new > releases are based on the tree itself. It has been a while since I have > used a binary distribution, but when I did, I looked forward to new > releases because new versions of X and Y were generally tied to it; > which is not usually the case with Gentoo except where profiles dictate > that. Is the motivation for more releases in part the expectation of > more features? If so, also collecting their suggestions for a features > list would be helpful. There is a thread on gentoo-user currently. It started out about the GWN, but it's been hijacked to talk about the install CD. If you want to know what / why users want the install CD, then read some of the comments from here on: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/192742 -- Iain Buchanan Bob Barker: "Which one of these lovely womanoids will take home atomic tiara?" -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list