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 1K9D4v-0007n5-Co for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:53:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E55FE03D4; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:52:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A11E03D4 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:52:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z27so930762ugc.49 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:52:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=cXgwtpmtV4pcWI+FyvK/D8NYHdBWX+vDNXJ7x1fX9fU=; b=vGBCvQDSs/wDdit8eUqz9lqp/p2sFEKO/MnwRwccMA1WGTI0fNmGASXawFMkrDNU3W kTX2Ng1UCpsrNPgKH2/5wcMLgyIBFG+VPVYQKOkA5vPK6XFjTjPSUBphhfie4B4T3RjL 1zWlEmgGcKbzT/PaOgVwKAymvgtEzy+UOdF48= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=ew3Pw3Xr5Eb59NBNKdEDuI/F6nRhwUZ43r1hOj8tDHBXgMNbKEtdJSZLEdvkB1+4tB xav6EtpC6gQDMNrtoU0f4WFwvbEDEjaBZGo6EmCexltv0GAKzCdYH/AZZ9oY4fZh8OGu 9SaqJvn+UKdzhOnMe4EmWzpwgWZhZUxunRK0o= Received: by 10.210.89.4 with SMTP id m4mr1441700ebb.68.1213854772203; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiny-one.home ( [81.158.32.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g9sm374152gvc.0.2008.06.18.22.52.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:52:51 -0700 (PDT) From: David Leverton To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:52:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080611070618.54E4066E24@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080613112745.12d80881@googlemail.com> <1213835013.15712.21.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> In-Reply-To: <1213835013.15712.21.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> 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-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806190652.48744.levertond@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2f7ce44e-cc54-45a8-92d0-a7e811d1b138 X-Archives-Hash: e6a017978600ead6c4a2aa11a23372f3 On Thursday 19 June 2008 01:23:33 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Considering that the "most recent official release" is 2008.0_beta2, I > don't see where you have a point, at all. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/#doc_chap5 "The latest release of Gentoo Linux is: "Gentoo Linux 2007.0 for Alpha, AMD64, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC, S390, SH, SPARC, and x86 architectures. " 2007.0 is also the first version listed at http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml The point is to avoid breaking Portage versions that users might reasonably be using, even if only briefly. Do you really expect /all/ users doing a new installation to choose the scary beta instead of the nice safe release? Perhaps we all know that the beta is better because it's so much more up to date. Maybe it's even just as stable, if not more so (I wouldn't know, I haven't tried it). But as long as it's labelled "beta", at least some people are going to avoid it in favour of 2007.0, and breaking the tree for those people such that they can't upgrade is unacceptable. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list