On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:22:11AM +0200, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
> I was reading the new newsletter, especially the part : "Releases do not
> matter in Gentoo Linux.".If releases really doesn't matter, why 1.4
> isn't out ? I DO know you can use a 1.4RC1/2/3/4 live cd have an up to
> date system with emerge -u, but newbies don't.

Bringing out a final version (1.4 in this case) is more than just telling
people it's okay to use this version. It is also an event that will get
noticed by other parties, not only distrowatch, linuxtoday and other
newssites, but also LUGs and companies.

Therefor a 1.4-release should be a milestone with certain criteria in mind.
One of them (which I take very seriously) is documentation: you cannot
release a final version without having all documentation ready. The same goes
for the translations.

Another one are the milestone-targets that were made public some weeks ago:
	* Baselayout independent of tmpfs
	* CFLAGS documentation or a tool that gives CFLAGS-building
	  functionality
	* GRP creation and testing
	* Kernelscript to help ppl configure their kernel

Most of those demands have been met, but GRP still needs some testing
(correct me if I am wrong).

Also, the LiveCD should work with as many configurations as possible. If you
check bugs.gentoo.org for the term "livecd" you'll see that there are still
bugs to be addressed. 

Avenj (Gentoo Release Coordinator), seemant (Development Manager) and
drobbins (Chief Architect) should _all_ be able to sleep tight when
the release is made. If one of them isn't sure about something, then the
release should be delayed.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen
	Gentoo Documentation
	Dutch Translations
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