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