Hello That would mean additional very uninteresting work. Work people usualy only do when they get paid for it and not as hobby.
I don't mean that as bad as it may sound. Ofcourse you always have to do stuff you maybe don't like that much. You do this because you like the whole thing and know that it's good for the project but telling the developer to maintain another tree which he never uses himself is maybe a bit too much. The quallity could suffer even if he agrees to maintain a 2nd tree simply because he never really uses it himself. I think the only usable way to this is when a defined group of devs do only maintain the stable tree. Now you need devs which are happy with doing only this. When all devs do both trees it wouldn't be that great i guess. Not because they are evil or lazy. It's because uninteresting work automaticaly gets the lowest priorty. Many ~arch ebuilds which are ~arch for months simply because noone marks them stable prove it. And the initial reason for the stable tree is to get something really stable and perfectly working and ultra super tested and never breaking. Well, personaly i don't really like maintaining 2 trees. Mostly for the above said reasons. I'd also need another installation for the testing and stuff. But i would never really use the tree myself. And as you all know, the most bugs and problems are found in a real running and used environment. Ok, that's my personal opinion but the above reasons are valid for more than myself i think. Christian On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:45:11AM -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > This is an awesome GLEP idea, and I'm glad it finally got put into written > words. The one suggestion I have, which I am sure is up for a large amount > of criticism, is that I think Gentoo should charge a fee for the use of this > tree. This is, in my opinion, a premium service, and a I believe it should > come with a premium price, even if it's as low as 5 dollars per quarter. > > But maybe I'm totally off base here. > > Regards, > Caleb > > On Monday 02 February 2004 10:17 am, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > All -- > > > > I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable' tree > > in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains security > > and major bugfixes out of cycle. > > > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0019.html > > > > Please take a moment to review the GLEP and offer any feedback or ask any > > questions. > > > > --kurt > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
