Hello everybody :)
I'd like to argue about this problem, since my point of view slightly
differs about this "problem".
I think that releasing installation media more often would make sense,
more than in the case of stages. I wrote a small article a few weeks ago,
about the "Small Gentoo" LiveCD (1). In just a few days, it has become one
of the most read articles of my site. People really often encounter
problems with recent hardware, and I must confess that I had sometimes to
bring them to "alternative" LiveCDs (2), because Gentoo minimal lacked
such hw support.
One way could be to automate LiveCD generation, as Debian or Ubuntu do
with their "weekly /nightly builds", but not to provide support on it.
Maybe we could have two kinds of releases : experimental releases,
automatically generated, and "official" releases ?
About the stages, I think things are well as they already are. Upgrading
to "latest gentoo release" isn't really a big problem, when you have the
hardware support ("emerge --sync ; emerge system -e" solves this
problem most of the time ?).
Regards,
Hubert.
(1) https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-505165.html
(2) http://www.sysresccd.org/
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