Bug 8397 – Why don't we branch?

• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Seth Chandler 2002-09-26 00:02:44 UTC]

Why should there be a freeze, rather than a branch.  Mozilla did it, *BSD's do 
it.  Branch, take time to make stable, but also continue adding packages.  We 
all know how long the woody freeze was for debian (not that i think that would 
happen here)..........

[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-09-26 00:53:01 UTC]

we freeze as so the packaging (you know, ISO, tarballs, that sort of thing) can
get a stable (that means -unchanging) set of builds to make binaries from.  with
a freeze we can lock things down and count on them not to change for at least
the days it takes to make all stage tarballs, ISO images and others, this means
that the packages used for all, the package trees and other information
essential to ensure that all the binary versions are equal remain equal.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2002-09-26 10:02:20 UTC]

the question is not 'why do we freeze', the question is 'why dont we branch'

we could have a stable tree that we freeze with while using another branch to 
develop off of ...

[Comment 3 Seth Chandler 2002-09-27 04:07:41 UTC]

Actually, i remember a while back drobbins mentioning in an interview the 
possibility of a stable server branch, so branching has definately been thrown 
around...

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-29 07:07:12 UTC]

Too much work currently with the amount of active developers :(

[Comment 5 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2002-10-23 01:30:01 UTC]

Gentoo now has an unstable branch: use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch" 
where arch=x86,ppc,....  See the www.gentoo.org documentation for more 
information. 

[Comment 6 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2002-10-23 01:31:54 UTC]

Thank you for using Gentoo. 

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2003-03-07 01:19:25 UTC]

*** Bug 16990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***