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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:12:44
Message-Id: 4AF331B0.4020108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Tobias Klausmann
1 Tobias Klausmann wrote:
2 > Hi!
3 >
4 > On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Ryan Hill wrote:
5 >> Is there any interest in allowing certain packages to be stabilized by the
6 >> maintainer without going through the arch teams? I always feel guilty when i
7 >> file stabilization bugs for app-doc pkgs.
8 >
9 > I think for bugs which only install passive files (i.e. stuff
10 > that doesn't "power" anything else), Keywording can be done by the
11 > maintainer. Pure doc files (like selfhtml) are in that category.
12 >
13
14 In the past when smaller arches were not that active we used to mark
15 Java packages stable after testing by at least one arch team. The
16 probability to find arch specific issues in something like Java is not
17 so high so I think arrangements like this are acceptable when the arch
18 teams have problems keeping up.
19
20 Regards,
21 Petteri

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