On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 08:21 +0100, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > What do you think of a simplified handbook ? One that presents a lot > fewer choices to the user, in order to be less confusing. I don't mean > replacing the current handbook which is one great piece of work, but > writing a "Gentoo in 10 easy steps" kind of guide. > > One of us may even have written one already. If not, I'm willing to > write or help writing one if that's considered a good idea.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml I'm not chiming in on the rest of the thread right now, since I am about to head on a plane and won't be available for a bit, but to put it simply, I have no plans on releasing *any* kind of nightly *anything* so long as Release Engineering still gets minimal testing from only a *tiny* subset of our developer pool when we are basically *begging* for it. I'm not expecting the level of required testing to diminish just because we do more builds, and in fact I expect it to increase. With the current participation level, I just don't see it as possible. Remember, we switched from quarterly to bi-annual releases for a reason. We simply didn't have the man power, CPU power, nor time to do vigorous enough testing in the much more shortened time frame. I'm going to be asking for Release Testers again once I return, and if last year's turn out was any indicator (50+ people volunteering, about 5 actually helping *at all*), the chances of a project such as nightly builds ever taking off is well beyond our means at this time. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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