On Thu Dec 12 15:37:54 2013 Martin Bähr <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > i believe in order to move forward it is necessary to put all our energy > behind fl:3 and work on fl:2 only as little as absolutely necessary.
I think it's almost there. Not many new things landing in fl2 these days. > in particular i believe we should try to free doniphon from any fl:2 > work if at all possible. > > doniphon, can you suggest tasks that still need to be done on fl:2 that > you can pass on? > > i think it doesn't matter if that means that fl:2 will be come less > stable for a while. we probably only want to work on the absolutely > necessary anyways, like updating firefox, maybe chromium (or maybe not, > it seems chromium is quite some work?), libreoffice is already handled > as a binary package by tforsman, which is good enough for fl:2 now. and > any other updates should come from the people who need them. Actually that's how I handle it atm, I only bump things when I stumbke over them or I find news on security issues. > do we need further kernel-updates for fl:2? can we pick a > long-term-support kernel and stick to it, defering all other kernel > updates to fl:3? Antonio has the latest longterm kernel on his reloaded repo and afaik will bless fl2 with it soonish. > is there anything else that needs to be maintained and updated in fl:2 > that can't wait for fl:3? Actually I'm pretty unhappy with our haswell support (only fb driver on X and plymouth dies on boot). If that needs to be fixed depends on how far fl3 is away. > can we help with building groups on 2-devel, and pushing updates to > 2-qa? anything that will give doniphon more time on fl:3 anything else for Antonio to answer. Other than that I'm all for leavin fl2 behind asap. > greetings, martin. mark _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.foresightlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
