On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:22:59AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Keeping oldnet the default and only documented method, does seem to be the > most pragmatic/practical solution. > > Given nightmorph's indication that he's not interested in redoing the docs > twice, or documenting both methods, that does mean we're keeping oldnet > for the foreseeable future, probably as long as we keep openrc, and > there's no clear/foreseeable plan to migrate from it, so... . > > The implication is even if we don't immediately drop newnet support for > those that are already using it, it'll be undocumented, untested for > network package bumps, and therefore unsupported. In practice, anything > in /that/ status eventually dies, so by implication, a decision to make > oldnet the default and only documented version ultimately means newnet > will become less and less practical to run as it requires more and more > specific installation support and workarounds to keep it up and running. > However, if we keep newnet around as a masked USE flag until it's no > longer worth continuing, it'll give people already using it time to switch > back, and/or to build up their own site scripts as workarounds, as newnet > gradually gets more and more stale and broken. It won't be "masked", it just won't be the default setup, and you will have to do some work that will not be documented to turn it on.
> Finally, I'm not sure it absolutely needs it, but for clarity-sake and to > avoid second-guessing and debate continuing long past the point of > usefulness, I believe a council vote on the issue is appropriate. I don't > know where we are in the meeting cycle, but it seems to me that barring > some special-case exception, a vote in 10 days or so should be plenty of > time for folks to make their opinions known, so the first meeting after > that looks to be appropriate for a vote, to me. If we keep oldnet as the default, there is nothing for the council to vote on as far as I can see, because stable users are covered in the migration guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml. If they follow that path, there is nothing special they need to do outside of that, so there isn't any affect. William
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