On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Andreas K. Huettel < > dilfri...@gentoo.org> > > wrote: > >> > >> Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017, 01:22:44 CEST schrieb Peter Stuge: > >> > > >> > I hold a perhaps radical view: I would like to simply remove stable. > >> > > >> > I continue to feel that maintaining two worlds (stable+unstable) > >> > carries with it an unneccessary cost. > >> > > >> > >> That's not feasible. It would kill off any semi-professional or > >> professional > >> Gentoo use, where a minimum of stability is required. > > > > > > So my argument (for years) has been that this is the right thing all > along. > > > > If people want a stable Gentoo, fork it and maintain it downstream of the > > rambunctious rolling distro. > > > > What is the difference between forking the repository, and just > maintaining a keyword inside the same repository, besides the former > being easier to integrate into QA/etc? > > People who are interested in working on stable already do so, and > people who are not for the most part shouldn't be bothered by it. In > the cases where stable has caused issues with maintainers the council > has generally dropped arches from stable support so that repoman won't > complain when packages are removed. > Sorry, to be clear the conclusion I was hoping to draw is that one has 2 repos instead of 1. 1) Rolling. 2) Stable. Rolling is typical ~arch Gentoo. People in rolling can do whatever they want; they can't affect stable at all. Stable is an entirely separate repo, a fork, where CPVs are pulled from Rolling into Stable. If Stable wants to keep a gnarly old version of some package around; great! But the rolling people don't have to care. > > I won't say that having stable costs us nothing, but I think the cost > is pretty low. Asking people who want stable to leave isn't going to > make things any better. > Nothing stops Gentoo (the organization / community) from housing the above scheme in one organization. I mean, nothing but political will right? :) -A > > -- > Rich > >
