Samuli Suominen wrote: > Robin H. Johnson wrote: >> GDP team: >> (I didn't hear from you in the bug) >> Could you please update: >> - handbook section "Writing Init scripts" >> - OpenRC migration guide > > ACK on this one, we are already overwhelmed by openrc changes wrt init > scripts at media teams. Or at least, I am.
Then, my fellow developers, ya'll need to tell us exactly what needs to change. That has not yet happened on the bugs, just a lot of offtopic discussion relevant to the package maintainers, but not to the GDP for documentation purposes. Just because there's lots of chatter on e.g. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270646 doesn't mean that the GDP has any idea of how to proceed. GuideXML patches are nice, but not necessary. What we *do* need, at a minimum, is a concise description of what the current text says, and what it needs to say. Thanks. * * * Also, if OpenRC/baselayout is dropping support for things like PPP or ADSL[1], and will not guarantee a "stable" configuration (i.e. as "final" as baselayout-1 has been, not needing constant user-side updates)[2] . . . then we need to find some other solution for our users. If upstream doesn't ever want to slow down, wants to constantly stick in new features, try out new things, that's all well and good. More power to 'em. But I think that is ultimately not such a good thing for our users. Especially if it means constantly dropping support for features, sacrificing compatibility, etc. We're already having enough trouble trying to ensure future Portage compatibility via EAPIs, we should not add in a potential baselayout/OpenRC mess atop that. Oh, yes . . . and there's the workload it would put on the GDP folks. We already have a helluva time running around chasing devs down and prying out straight answers about what to update in the existing documentation. We'd probably all quit if we had to do the same thing for every new openrc/baselayout release. [1] http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c200905252003.42176.rbu%40gentoo.org%3e [2] http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c200905252003.42176.rbu%40gentoo.org%3e
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