On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:21:46 +0200, Justin <jus...@j-schmitz.net> wrote: > Xav' schrieb: >> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:07:57 +0200, Justin <jus...@j-schmitz.net> wrote: >>> Xav' schrieb: >>>> What i'm expecting from a new release is a new stage[1,2,3] tarballs >> with >>>> updated software. >>>> >>> Although said quite some times: autobuilds!!!!!!! >>> >>> Perhaps you like to keep your self up-to-date with our new webpage, >> where > > www.gentoo.org which now includes all feeds from planet.g.o, the > glsa and the package additions. > See Donnie's post from 20. December
To rejoin my earlier idea, as Donnie's post seems to say, autobuilds "have not been rigorously tested as the old releases"... So yes, autobuilds are build with stable and tested software, but a release roadmap means that there is some work to built it, and IMHO is a proof that the distro is alive. And i think that this will be seen by the Community as a "dying" distro... > >>> things like "autobuilds" are >>> announced regularly. >> >> In fact, i was not aware of autobuilds before yesterday... And i'm now >> using them. >> On the other side, i still disagree with vanishing of the Gentoo >> releases, >> as they leads to a better visibility in the open source community. I >> think >> they provide some "milestone" to see that the distribution is kept >> up-to-date and still under active developpement... But again, it's my own >> opinion. >> > You are right, thats what darkside talked about. Plus if you take a look at > sites like distrowatch, > gentoo will vanish w/o new releases I think it's important that Gentoo stay in touch with these kinds of website to improve his visibility over the Open Source Community, and that's why i think that "official" releases are important.
