Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:22:36
Message-Id: 20060904092001.4dfe8fe2@c1358217.kevquinn.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages going into the tree with non-gentoo maintainers by Ryan Hill
1 On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 17:54:33 -0600
2 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
5 > > If you don't care whether a package is stable or not, just let the
6 > > arch team go ahead and do what they need to do to stabilise when
7 > > they wish to. The role of package maintainer has nothing to do with
8 > > stabilisation, which is the preserve of the arch teams.
9 >
10 > Um, sure it does. We're not going to stabilize something without
11 > attempting to contact the maintainer first. If it's
12 > maintainer-needed we'll just go ahead though.
13
14 Yeah; I meant that ebuild maintainers don't do stabilisation, the arch
15 teams do, and that if the ebuild maintainer isn't interested in whether
16 the package is stable or not, they can leave it for the arch team (and
17 ATs) to do.
18
19 --
20 Kevin F. Quinn

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