From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18216 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Aug 2003 18:11:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14936 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 18:11:36 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:10:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <005c01c36355$3dc1d8f0$8500a8c0@PROTON> In-Reply-To: <005c01c36355$3dc1d8f0$8500a8c0@PROTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_JJSP/BXv9TnyfFK"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308152011.24262.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.7 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's X-Archives-Salt: eef86322-e43e-4e7b-8dd3-e0ae4e72cb2f X-Archives-Hash: 3e05adf39f42f9817dfd8ab0247045c6 --Boundary-02=_JJSP/BXv9TnyfFK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 15 August 2003 19:47, Todd Berman wrote: > > Its not so much that I'm missing that, and more that I am attempting to > introduce a different concept of what might quantify a Gentoo 'Release'. > > If the 'Release' was based on a snapshot of the Portage Tree (with > security fixes backported of course, most likely major bug fixes as > well), then there would be something uniform and standard to release > against. > Well, the idea is currently that we will provide such releases with extra Q= A=20 for especially enterprice users. Basically such a release will be a snapsho= t=20 of the then current stable tree with necessary QA etc. This certainly does= =20 not mean that we will stop offering a stable and testing tree. It is actual= ly=20 expected that most developers will run testing trees, but it is an effort t= o=20 make gentoo an option for enterprise users that want to be able to run=20 updates without fear of things changing. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_JJSP/BXv9TnyfFK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/PSJJbKx5DBjWFdsRAu7AAJ49zjt3kLVm890CoEOhFQMf54UcRgCfWHra 7f89So8P7Cj26ewSepv2oXA= =Jm/l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_JJSP/BXv9TnyfFK--