Bart Braem posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 05 May 2006 10:43:28 +0200:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> Bart Braem wrote: >>> Xorg 7: 5 months >> >> Can't stabilize till portage 2.1 is stable. Doesn't matter how many open >> bugs we've got, or how well it works. >> > Thanks for the explanation. Not that I really like it but I understand > that portage 2.1 is a large upgrade... That of course begs the question of portage 2.1 stabilization. FWIW, as a (mostly) lurker on the portage-devel group/list, I believe it's safe to say that 2.1-rcs are "coming real soon now". There's an active discussion at the moment on whether to base -rc1 on -pre10, which introduced some code cleanups, -pre9, before those cleanups but after the intro of manifest2 (a big target feature that needs included, but that will mean a bit longer to stabilize), or -pre7, before manifest2. Whatever the decision, portage trunk is now feature-frozen until the split is made, so the 2.1 stabilization process is now started. The target is stabilization of 2.1 for Gentoo 2006.1, penciled in for release this (northern hemisphere) summer (July-ish, AFAIK). Assuming that target is hit, Donnie should be able to say whether xorg 7 should stabilize at the same time and be ready for 2006.1 as well, or whether it'll be slightly behind, perhaps 30-days or so -- IOW, whether its 30 day stabilization is in parallel to or occurs after the 30-day stabilization of portage 2.1. In any case, given his statement above and the events from portage-devel, a reasonably safe prediction should be that they'll both be stable by the end of the (northern hemisphere) summer, with a target of mid-summer. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
