Let the staging begin
Well, as beejay noted earlier we are very close to releasing 2005.0 to the masses. I can’t wait to try out the stages and livecds! It seems like the releng team has been working extremely hard to make this release the best ever, lets hope it is! I started staging the release last night and will continue today. What this means is that all the data will be on the mirrors, just won’t be viewable to the public until the release date. (So don’t go rushing to your local mirror asking for a copy, just be PATIENT) This helps on the load for mirrors so they aren’t getting hammered because they’re still grabbing our stuff while our users are hammering their system.
In other news I haven’t been able to do much Gentoo work this week because of crazy stuff going on at work. I hope to try out Brian Herring’s mirror-dist script sometime this weekend. I’m also looking forward to possibly offering diff’d portage snapshots as a precursor to diff distfiles.