From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OVUzm-0005xc-VC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:37:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B025CE0B11; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5845CE0B0F for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:36:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B757F1B4056 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:36:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.787 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.787 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.788, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LyftBYUoPher for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F26A1B40AF for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:36:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVUzK-0005ul-I1 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:36:26 +0200 Received: from static24-72-114-21.yk.rev.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.114.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:36:26 +0200 Received: from dirtyepic by static24-72-114-21.yk.rev.accesscomm.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:36:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 13:39:49 -0600 Message-ID: <20100704133949.0cda055a@gentoo.org> References: <201007041630.07537.polynomial-c@gentoo.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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/=WH1Z.uBo02j5E3IXyJJCEd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: static24-72-114-21.yk.rev.accesscomm.ca X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: cbe692b5-32f1-4083-a857-ea72bdfd2ec4 X-Archives-Hash: b60a90daaf2568d89b5291cc5915fe65 --Sig_/=WH1Z.uBo02j5E3IXyJJCEd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 4 Jul 2010 17:17:25 +0200 Fabio Erculiani wrote: > How are we supposed to handle the amount of installations out there > that are using OpenRC then? > OpenRC/bl-2 have proven to be a big improvement over the old stuff. I > am for fixing current bugs, and keep it maintenance mode at least. > I'm already spread over several things but I could give a hand to > other devs willing to take over. http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_21f716d5ffa6f04520e39d12fbe43452.= xml > The only reason why OpenRC has not come up for stabilization by it's > maintainers is the fact that everytime there's a new version readied > for release, on the horizon there's new incompatible changes being > planned for the next version. The OpenRC maintainers in Gentoo have > always chosen to wait until OpenRC settles down a little bit. Now with > the plan to drop support for certain features (ADSL and PPP support in > the networking code), it's going to rewrite more Gentoo people to step > up to develop and maintain this code. I would say it's settled down now. I don't think stable can wait another 2-3 years on baselayout-1 while we switch to yet another rc system. --=20 fonts, gcc-porting, and it's all by design toolchain, wxwidgets to keep us from losing our minds @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 06= 62 --Sig_/=WH1Z.uBo02j5E3IXyJJCEd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkww44oACgkQiqiDRvmkBmL3/wCg1QdFHLsNdhhLBwd3GoNoDaqC B84AoLaOfWwTLCBQR96f0ILTUEcZnXOG =sbWo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/=WH1Z.uBo02j5E3IXyJJCEd--