Re: [gentoo-dev] State of Developement

[Evan Read <eread@freeshell.org>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:24:40PM -0700, George Shapovalov wrote:

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> The point I am getting at here is that we should and can allow our users to 
> take care of a large portion of non-crytical packages. What we need is:
> 1. Multiple stability levels or KEYWORDS
> 2. Streamlined ebuild processing - that automates submission of new 
> ebuilds/versions and assigns them some kind of "new" or "user-test" 
> keyword/level
> 3.Feedback system that collects user voices and moves ebuilds to corresponding 
> categories increasing or decreasing their stability rating.
> 4. Core group oversees and takes care of the core/crytical stuff and has 
> *much* more time to work onportage/sysinit/other_more_distro_specifc_stuff
> Well, that would be one possible point of view on this :).

Keywords, hey?  So I could track a stable tree that doesn't change so much 
and doesn't break? Is this coming with 1.4?
 
> 1. multitude of profiles (not just arch/gcc specific but tailored to certain 
> tasks: such as server vs desktop, etc.)

Oh sweet ;) desktop+stable? ;)

> And it all takes quite some work, so any help is appreciated; but then any 
> exciting project has a lot of routine associated with it.

This sounds good George.  I have been evaluating Gentoo of the last few 
days and I keep coming back to "it needs a stable tree".  I really hate 
breakages. I would prolly be willing to test new stuff in VMWare or UML, 
but not my main system.

I think that having different, trackable releases would be a turning point 
for the distribution.  It could become useful for production.


p.s.  Is there a page that lists new stuff coming in 1.4?

Thanks!

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