From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D72C138A1A for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65B74E081D; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chead.ca (chead.ca [162.250.190.135]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BDEE0809 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chead.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chead.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C699FDBF for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:07:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=chead.ca; h=date:from:to :subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type; s=chead20131008; bh=NkNcAiLwogduOFpkekPG1YxwDTo/y wrdoPWwdBd3iBc=; b=qJwIvCPv59MzOAHB49TqLbpIBD3LnjVjmajxCYFysmSaa o04QLaUcyd0ouYfEVzc9p7nyq4ynQXGFCyEHjaXrkv/QNVAD++bnN3naVwQcmMch kX4mkDRnj8+GYSw5qM8d0GRRc9aPisAeoa7wCohzpUnEF7RQFYjT6hiLY9ccP0= Received: from kruskal.home.chead.ca (d154-5-96-139.bchsia.telus.net [154.5.96.139]) by chead.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 340889FD66 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:07:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:06:34 -0800 From: Christopher Head To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches Message-ID: <20150220000634.60556379@kruskal.home.chead.ca> In-Reply-To: <54E213CA.1090602@gentoo.org> References: <1424093690.27408.35.camel@gentoo.org> <54E20E8E.1020102@gentoo.org> <54E213CA.1090602@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-sha256; boundary="Sig_/t6sxzotc0=0UZ_VkeChIJP+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 97e644a4-4ecb-4b62-b2d9-057d7cbef2e7 X-Archives-Hash: e66a7c8548df23f67b5ccb0f1e0cf793 --Sig_/t6sxzotc0=0UZ_VkeChIJP+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:59:06 -0500 Joshua Kinard 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. >=20 > 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=E2=80=99s all spread out over the year, so that in any given week, w= hat changes is a nice, bite-sized chunk of my system, so that I can easily isolate and deal with any problems=E2=80=94rather 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=E2=80=99t particularly wan= t to have to *compile* a year=E2=80=99s worth of new packages at one moment in time=E2=80=94better to spend an hour here, an hour there, spread out over t= he weeks. --=20 Christopher Head --Sig_/t6sxzotc0=0UZ_VkeChIJP+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQGcBAEBCAAGBQJU5usKAAoJEBt0Qpfing9K91oL+wZIu7BNGC9hbiM+aePsfsfh t3Ko/W8hOYrWie5wffF+CWcrWJwqBqnnGNBwFSkZtOfWBPVhnjY61DXGPTGMiXt/ FjMR1Rf9V5XThwh+JKMqzNIHHH++IFCC4WakYNlqMOSQ+Xv2hwfB37di44nnuKiu dxoPh59f4s10p8fBn7ztP7WTk4gyz8SId0mUjYhVcxxDwsNNQgDekPjb5SrQWFOf NT+92ejIE0rSn7l8KxdY4+MV8BqHknbVfV84Ks/ScFBTXx2blJNsyqZPbtGGRYse 1vK9jPyWfNjewU8BuZoRIyeVu1esg1FjtxxO8rBUI682w3iRtmDUzPjBJj20dkiu zAQD/9pOZt9LfS5DekOLYp6R+l5xRmp8nXfO2aL7JOk+52DrsFv+Vhv5DVBNjBXf 0zu9899sa/f2CcZHhGYkutalNfop54SHrYbzg3qWIlyy/Zgx1iaZPKJeKczEw5Vh VxQUJukkbzxBW3TCtOw6tXtQNJHHPSMOZK1EWCNzPw== =djk+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/t6sxzotc0=0UZ_VkeChIJP+--