Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:32:40
Message-Id: b41005391003111032s54466886r78ccbe4e6d5675a7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item by Jacob Godserv
1 On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > The problem here, I think, is everyone has their opinion about what it
3 > means for something to go stable, and I haven't seen more than one or
4 > two references to what has been predetermined as policy for
5 > stabilization. I think we should do a little less debating over
6 > personal opinions (which is a "hot" topic, apparently) and more about
7 > how Gentoo guidelines determine what can go stable. If the guidelines
8 > don't cover this, then they ought to be fixed.
9
10 The opinions of most of the people in this thread are not directly
11 relevant anyway. The maintainer gets to decide when to file a
12 stablereq bug for their package and the arch teams to get to decide
13 whether to mark something stable on their arch or not. So someone
14 just make a decision and move forward; we will never reach consensus
15 here (and we should not be trying to reach one anyway.)
16
17 -A
18
19 >
20 > --
21 >    Jacob
22 >
23 >    "For then there will be great distress, unequaled
24 >    from the beginning of the world until now — and never
25 >    to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut
26 >    short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the
27 >    elect those days will be shortened."
28 >
29 >    Are you ready?
30 >
31 >