Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

[Christopher Head <chead@chead.ca>]

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:59:06 -0500
Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Once we complete the git migration, why not take a second look on
> using a stable/testing/unstable (or -RELEASE/-STABLE/-CURRENT) system
> used by Debian and FreeBSD?  That should be entirely doable under a
> git tree versus CVS.  It would require beefing releng up again and a
> whole host of other issues.
> 
> Keep the core git tree constantly rolling forward, have a dedicated
> branch get cut say, once a year (or less -- Debian is ~18mo?),
> another group of devs works on stabilizing that (and periodically
> cherrypicking from the master branch), and when the time comes,
> totally freeze that for security revs only by a smaller group of devs?

Personally, one of the things that I love about Gentoo is that I never
have to deal with EVERYTHING changing all at once. Sure, things may
change more often through the year than they do with staged releases,
but it’s all spread out over the year, so that in any given week, what
changes is a nice, bite-sized chunk of my system, so that I can easily
isolate and deal with any problems—rather than a staged release that
upgrades 150 packages, leaving a dozen things broken and no idea where
to start looking.

Also, from a more pragmatic point of view, I don’t particularly want to
have to *compile* a year’s worth of new packages at one moment in
time—better to spend an hour here, an hour there, spread out over the
weeks.
-- 
Christopher Head

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