From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10854 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 20:05:52 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 20:05:52 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BJeGd-0002Cn-Hl for arch-gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 20:05:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 8446 invoked by uid 50004); 30 Apr 2004 20:05:48 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-releng-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-releng@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4682 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 20:05:48 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1083353948.8845.160.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> References: <1083296324.8841.122.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> <1083353948.8845.160.camel@woot.uberdavis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele From: Pieter Van den Abeele Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 22:05:46 +0200 To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 planning X-Archives-Salt: 1e776270-2445-448e-86d6-5e01241b0a63 X-Archives-Hash: f42bb855ed2342ca2760d2628006d114 On 30 Apr 2004, at 21:39, John Davis wrote: > Every release up to 2004.1 was late and broken; 1.4 was almost > vaporware and 2004.0 was > late. I would like to point out that ppc did more than 10 different _rc releases for the 1.4 cds, while waiting for x86 to be completed :-) 1.4 went broken when apple published broken firmware, incompatible with the kernel 2004.0 was broken because upstream ppc kernels were broken. (2.6.5 finally fixed it). > We accomplished something that has never been done with Gentoo > before, and I see that as something to be proud of (not to say that we > have an enormous amount of room to improve). true > Let's ditch the preliminary release requirement then. I would much > rather have QA and testing over a prelim release. Will this work? sure > You need to open a dialog with plasmaroo on this one. Genkernel, > although used by releng, is not maintained by releng. Perhaps at some > point it can be in the future, but at this point in time, it is up to > you to get on plasmaroo to fix the problems. Genkernel works ok for catalyst. But the initrd complicates things for users just trying to build a working kernel for a new install. >> Preferably as few as possible. >EXAMS< > > In July, yeesh ... june and aug for me. Pieter -- gentoo-releng@gentoo.org mailing list