Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-20 Thread Sam James
> On 19 Oct 2021, at 00:24, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > Sorry but portage is too strictly related to the ebuilds in tree, recent > removal of EAPI=5 from most eclasses underlined that. > Or to put id differently if you want a LTS portage you also need a certain > number of "protected"

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-19 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 4:25 PM Francesco Riosa wrote: > > > Il giorno mar 5 ott 2021 alle ore 10:31 Michał Górny ha > scritto: >> >> Hi, everyone. >> >> I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent >> FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-18 Thread Francesco Riosa
Il giorno mar 5 ott 2021 alle ore 10:31 Michał Górny ha scritto: > Hi, everyone. > > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS > branch of Portage. > > Roughly, the idea is that: > > - master

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 1:31 AM Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS > branch of Portage. > > Roughly, the idea is that: > > - master becomes 3.1.x, and

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 13:16 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released? > > > > > > > I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could > > bump 'master'

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released? > > > > I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could > bump 'master' Portage to newer EAPI earlier or...? > I just mean that, a priori, the

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:15 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:31 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hi, everyone. > > > > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent > > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS > > branch

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 10:31 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent > FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS > branch of Portage. > I think this is healthy for most software projects, but

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Fabian Groffen
In all fairness, there haven't been that much incidents with Portage in the past under Zac's supervision, isn't it a bit overkill to bureaucratise the release model just after one incident? It appears to me that changes to Portage need to be considered very carefully, always, since it affects

[gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage

2021-10-05 Thread Michał Górny
Hi, everyone. I've been thinking about this for some time already, and the recent FILESDIR mess seems to confirm it: I'd like to start a more stable LTS branch of Portage. Roughly, the idea is that: - master becomes 3.1.x, and primary development happens there - 3.0.x becomes the LTS branch