From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FuCYz-0006jd-NN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:08:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5OI7nnv031856; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:07:49 GMT Received: from smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.11]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5OI7mH0003893 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:07:48 GMT Received: from 146-115-26-214.c3-0.abr-ubr1.sbo-abr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO [192.168.1.3]) ([146.115.26.214]) by smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 24 Jun 2006 14:09:37 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.06,172,1149480000"; d="scan'208"; a="227704444:sNHT28829412" Message-ID: <449D7F63.3040502@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 13:07:31 -0500 From: Joshua Nichols User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060618) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: gentoo-java Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Furball References: <1151125056.11154.11.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com> In-Reply-To: <1151125056.11154.11.camel@procyon.operationaldynamics.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: abca6a97-8cfd-4296-8fc0-fab357be4dc7 X-Archives-Hash: 2088303ccae43fe643b4671d202dd67e -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEnX9j8ATTzZyw6sMRAgKsAJ9aqqGazlu9lb9sMGR8uD31eogKIACfSVVF UzfQVYgjTlJ6f3AIwZ5dHX0= =Nn1+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list