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From: Tobias Klausmann <klausman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:02:38
Message-Id: 20091104180104.GA18587@eric.schwarzvogel.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Christian Faulhammer
1 Hi!
2
3 On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
4 > Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>:
5 > > What about ppc64? They are MONTHS behind on stabilization,
6 > > even for security bugs (see bug 281821 for example). The Qt team
7 > > feels this is no longer acceptable. We propose that any arch that
8 > > can't keep up will be demoted to experimental status.
9 >
10 > I surely subscribe to that. At the moment Brent (ranger) is
11 > definitely alone on that arch.
12
13 So am I on alpha.[0] It is doable, but it wears you thin - and
14 it's extra bad because it means I have hardly any free time to
15 mentor anybody.
16
17 That said, I hope whoever feels the need comes to me /before/ they
18 file a bug for "Let's make alpha experimental".
19
20 Regards,
21 Tobias
22
23
24 [0] Yes, armin76 helps, but he does so for many arches (and
25 around of applause for that), but the majority of bugs for alpha
26 are on my plate.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>