On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 03:17:12PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > In the last three weeks, I have updated about 64 packages in BLFS. I > started to look ahead. This is where we stand: > > LFS 7.0 checked: 64 > LFS 6.7 checked: 97 > LFS 6.5 checked: 143 > > There are, in addition, somewhere around 320 packages that have no > annotation. That is a total of about 625 packages. > I suggest that none of the editors cares about the packages without annotation, and therefore they should be dropped.
> > What has been obvious for some time is that we cannot produce a BLFS-x.x > release. First, there are not enough developers with the time needed to > do the necessary work. Second, and probably more important, is that > with the number of packages in the book, the change rate is just too > great to produce such a book in what could be called a timely manner. > I've made my offer for 6.8, and there was no interest. I still don't have a 7.0 system (my system time is currently used documenting what I built, and in what order, and trying to fix vulnerabilities). I still like the idea of releases, but it doesn't really affect what I build. > > The current changelog goes back to August 2008. I propose removing any > log entries more than about a year old and save them in a separate file, > but not publish them. The current changelog is about 40 pdf pages. > I don't think more than a handful of people ever build the pdf version of the book. For the rest of us, page counts are meaningless. The changelog, on the other hand, can be useful. For previous releases, the changelogs are online - I think the removed data ought to be published : e.g. files for 2008-since-6.3, calendar 2009, calendar 2010, and then similarly in the future. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
