Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.5.1 arrived in the tree

[Joshua Saddler <nightmorph@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:52:06 +0200
Dawid Węgliński <cla@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Upstream already provides such a documentation as you can see above. Gentoo 
> provides migration guide. I believe doc team will update use flag description 
> as soon as it's possible.

In this case, "As soon as it's possible" means "when someone sends a patch to bugzilla, because I don't know what the hell to do." And I'm the document maintainer.

Take a look at the forums, folks -- there are a *lot* of threads on this major change. Things that should be simple and straightforward, are not really straightforward. Like the USE flag and reading its description in metadata.xml, or enabling it to get a working system. Right now, most of the reports are from users who for one reason or another don't have the flag enabled. And there are other regression reports from the .5 series in general, not specific to the USE flag. And lots of users just don't know what this change brings, or what they should expect, or what they need from the new version.

Who'll help them out? Who holds the hands of these users, to tell 'em there's a migration guide with the fixes for these problems? Who writes the information in the guide so that it will be there when they need help?

Not me. I don't write that stuff down. I'm "just" the guy who commits it. And I've got nothing to help our users. So if you know how OpenRC 0.5.x is supposed to behave, from the perspective of a stable user moving to ~arch OpenRC . . . then for the love of our users, go to bugs.gentoo.org and get me some patches.

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