On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 13:13 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > > I think the current quality level of the 2.1 branch is good enough to make it > a release candidate. From my perspective, it seems like a waste of > everyone's time to roll a 2.0.55 release when 2.1 is a perfectly good > replacement (with lots of bug fixes relative to 2.0.54). > > I know there are probably some additional features that people would like to > get into 2.1 before we make this transition. Despite this, I think that it's > in everyone's best interest to retire the the 2.0.x branch as soon as > possible so that it doesn't waste people's time. This transition doesn't > necessarily mean that it's going to be "a long time" before some desired > feature X is available in the stable version of portage. The next release > after 2.1 (2.2 or whatever) doesn't necessarily have to be too far off in the > future. > > So, I'd like to create 2.1 branch that is closed to mostly anything except > regression fixes and release it as portage-2.1_rc1 this Saturday. We can > continue to do ~arch releases of the development branch (2.2 or whatever it > becomes) every 2 weeks. Does now seem like a good time for this transition? > Your feedback would be appreciated.
If this has been repeated elsewhere than sorry for the re-post. The resolver still needs a bit of work before it's ready. Handling of the || () in ROOT!=/ via the -K option is not in that good of shape in 2.1_NXX and can't really be used. Till that's addressed 2.1(re-ping jason) in my eyes absolutely should not even be considered for any rc status. Other than that I'm quite pleased with many aspects of 2.1 -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- [email protected] mailing list
