Please consider, as option, the possibility to have a rolling branch along with fixed ones. Our default would be to be rolling, but with an equo hop you may switch to a fixed branch, like a snapshot of the status of our distro at a time. This would allow the user to install new software without being forced to do the world update.
My proposal is not coming from the deep perversion of my brain, but is because many users DON'T like to update things, they are happy with the system as it comes, but they need some more software. I made a raw copy of the entropy repository on a small server and pointed their repositories.conf to this resource. It worked, they are really happy and they will make a new installation in three years or so (ASA they will mess up things by themselves). I wonder if we may want to generalize this support - in case, we would be the first (AFAIK) with both rolling and milestone based release systems. The way might be to rely on branching. It would require almost zero maintaining*, very limited bandwidth**, a lot of disk space***. * it's a raw copy, no further maintaining needed ** if you don't get updates, you just download packages when you install something new - which is definitely more rare *** each copy is around 80GB if I don't wrong, supposing we want to make a milestone for every release and offer "support" for five years, we'd need 1.2TB 2011/6/23 Fabio Erculiani <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Danilo Pianini > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Like it, I agree. >> A question for you. In the current developing model, which is the >> meaning of "equo hop"? >> Will we have an hop for each release, not being rolling anymore or >> will it be just ignored? > > It depends. Perhaps a new GCC major version would require the whole > tree to be rebuilt. In this case, we'll trigger a branch fork, thus, > in this case "equo hop" is required. > >> In case branching is no longer used, I have a proposal to exploit this >> equo feature in an useful and - to the best of my knowledge - >> innovative way. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini >> Phone: +39 320 4136 573 >> Skype: dany.sk >> >> > > > > -- > Fabio Erculiani > > -- Ing. Dott. Danilo Pianini Phone: +39 320 4136 573 Skype: dany.sk
