Current Slack activity slows down ?

win32sux · 12-07-2005, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by KnightHawk

Based on discussion I've had with him in the past. He almost never jumps on the latest and greatest bandwagon when it comes to software. I dunno that he only does things out of neccessity, so much as he does a "wait and see". Meaning wait for new version to come out, see if it blows up for everyone else or not. Then after the "kinks" are worked out, then move it into current.

In other words patrick is not striving to be the "bleeding edge". We are striving for stability.

true, however this is definitely NOT the reason why there's been nothing happening in current for a month now...

i hope he's alright and stuff... =(

Ilgar · 12-07-2005, 02:49 AM

At the end of his Nov 5 changelog he said

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There, now hopefully we can start getting some REAL work done around here again soon...

He has something in mind, maybe moving everything to 2.6.x kernel (and even gcc 4)? I don't want to think that he's having health problems again

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jayakrishnan · 12-07-2005, 03:54 AM

www.linuxpackages.net try that

win32sux · 12-07-2005, 05:04 AM

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Originally Posted by jayakrishnan

www.linuxpackages.net try that

third party slackpacks != patrick's official slackpacks

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Originally Posted by Ilgar

At the end of his Nov 5 changelog he said

There, now hopefully we can start getting some REAL work done around here again soon...

He has something in mind, maybe moving everything to 2.6.x kernel (and even gcc 4)? I don't want to think that he's having health problems again

.

yeah, me neither... i'm kinda hoping this lack of activity has something to do with "the big recompile" that so many of us have been fantasizing about for so long... hehe... but wait, gcc 4.x?? i would have imagined it would be gcc 3.4.x, as that's the version which was included in testing in the slackware 10.2 release?? also, i am not an expert in any way, but what i've read on the web suggests that gcc 4.x is currently nowhere near as stable as any of the previous versions and won't be for quite a while - so using that version might give patrick some unnecessary headaches and stuff IMHO... i'd leave the 4.x to Fedora and the like...

Ilgar · 12-07-2005, 10:44 AM

Yes I know, gcc 4.x would be a bit too new to be included in Slack. Still, the switch to 2.6.x should be big enough to keep Pat busy for a while.

davidsrsb · 12-07-2005, 08:19 PM

udev is still a rapidly moving target, one of th reasons given for 10.2 sticking with 2.4.x

win32sux · 12-11-2005, 06:45 AM

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Sat Dec 10 23:28:42 CST 2005

It's a girl! :-)

I know a lot of you have been wondering what's going on here, and the news
is that my wife Andrea delivered our first child, a daughter Briah Cecilia
(briah at slackware dot com :-) on 2005-11-22, and that event (and the weeks
that led up to it) has had to take priority over the usual tasks of
download/compile/test/package/upload. But, things should be getting back to
normal here (more or less) over the next couple of weeks, particularly after
the holiday season has come and gone. As you might expect, there are a lot of
friends and relatives who want to see her. :-)

Thanks for your patience, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled
ChangeLog...

http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386

brodo · 12-11-2005, 06:07 PM

I think it's my duty to officially close this thread becouse now current slack seems active as always !
Congratulation for PV & his little baby !

Namaseit · 12-11-2005, 07:00 PM

Awesome!!! Not only the update but also congratulations to Pat and his future slacker