From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A9838139694 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EAC0E0D91; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D4B8E0D20 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (81.61.201.10.dyn.user.ono.com [81.61.201.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pacho) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 142633417AB for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:18:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1500974301.4544.69.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts? From: Pacho Ramos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:18:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1500963512.25461.5.camel@gentoo.org> References: <20170724222223.6d359e47@sf> <20170724232244.GT12397@stuge.se> <1500963512.25461.5.camel@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 8d1bef53-4119-49ab-9312-ac8fea0cd5eb X-Archives-Hash: ec8d74d39ce0de32beec88f198757b0b El mar, 25-07-2017 a las 08:18 +0200, Hans de Graaff escribió: > On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 23:22 +0000, Peter Stuge wrote: > > > > I hold a perhaps radical view: I would like to simply remove stable. > > > > [snip] > > > > I consider dev time a precious resource. > > If we were to drop stable I would have to start maintaining my own > stable lists to determine what would be ready to into production for my > company. In production "works most of the time" and "good enough" > simply aren't good enough. > > I estimate that would at least equal the amount of time I'm currently > spending on Gentoo work, and consequently my contributions to Gentoo > would dwindle to a halt. Most likely I would start looking at other > solutions altogether. > > > More troubleshooting and fixing "hard" problems, less routine work. > > Except that some of that routine work is actually what I enjoy doing in > Gentoo. I already get plenty of the other two in my day job. > > Hans If stable goes away I will simply switch to other distribution and retire