On 28/07/08 18:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Just a little FYI for everybody on the list... > > I've gone and forked most of the Release Engineering tools. I no longer > plan on maintaining the "Gentoo" versions of catalyst, genkernel, > hwdata, or livecd-tools. Instead, I am working on these projects under > my own domain and will be releasing them as "standalone" applications, > not under the Gentoo moniker. Now, these projects always have been > "Gentoo Hosted Projects" and not really owned by the Gentoo project, but > continued issues from other developers has proven that many don't > understand this case. As such, it was simply easier to break away from > the main project. This also allows us greater flexibility in making > changes that would otherwise not be accepted within Gentoo. All of the > current maintainers of these forks will be working on them in their new > homes, making the Gentoo-hosted versions essentially dead.
Interesting development. Can we be confident that the new independent catalyst will not break the current interfaces (ignoring trivial changes) and the use of portage? More to the point: what does this mean for existing catalyst projects that are using portage and intend to stay with it?
