Re: [gentoo-java] Furball

[Joshua Nichols <nichoj@gentoo.org>]

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Andrew Cowie wrote:
> Karl, Josh, and friends,
> 
> Given the furball that is erupting on gentoo-dev, I think that you need
> to make a very decisive point and make it quickly. I therefore recommend
> that you go ahead and merge all the migration packages to the official
> portage tree *now*.
> 
> They will all be in ~arch, of course. Where absolutely necessary you can
> hard-mask, but I think that a slightly less than perfect migration now
> is better than getting sucked into the overlay madhouse. That
> conversation is long beyond redemption, and rather than wasting energy
> getting caught up trying to swim alongside it, just merge your work and
> let a wider audience participate in finishing the job.
> 
> If manual action is necessary during the upgrade process, well, that's
> certainly nothing people are unprepared to encounter. This is Gentoo
> after all.
> 
> Now that I think of it, this is, after all, "release early, release
> often". So pull the trigger, baby: freeze over, merge to HEAD.
> 
> Good luck, and thanks for all the hard work.
> 
> AfC
> Sydney
> 

Thanks for the input AfC.

Actually, this was already my intention. I hope to put the changes in
today, or possibly tomorrow.

Right now, I'm working on some loose ends. In particular, getting the
user documentation cleaned up, renaming the java eselect module to
java_vm, and converting the wiki 'using migraiton-overlay' into guidexml.

- - Josh
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