On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 07:20:19PM -0700, Arthur Britto wrote:
> That's nice, but I've been tracking an ebuild submission (bug #8997)
> since October.
> 
> How many months should someone expect to babysit an ebuild till it is
> placed in portage as unstable? 6 months?

Suppose you are a Gentoo developer and that you are going to commit those
ebuilds in Portage. You are, as a developer, aware that *any* difficulty with
the ebuild is *your* responsability. *You* must have tested the ebuild
thouroughly and made sure that all variables and USE-settings are in place.
Now if this is an ebuild you don't even use, are you really motivated to take
such a responsability?

The Gentoo Linux Development is aware of this problem and is working on it.
However, implementing a complete new scheme concerning responsability for
ebuilds takes some time, not only to write out, but to test and make sure
there aren't any fallbacks. So please bare with us and be patient. Read the
GWN for the latest news on our Herd-implementation, but don't ask questions
about it since the people in charge of that implementation would rather
implement it than reply'ing to dozens of e-mails which will just slow down
their development pace.

And if you aren't satistied with that answer, just think that we are in an
ebuild-freeze (we're not, but just suppose we are) to increase our QA :)

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen
	Gentoo Documentation

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