Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker arches

[Markos Chandras]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:20:29PM +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> On 1/25/11 12:38 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> > Every arch teams should stabilise OR write out reason why they can't do
> > so to stable bug in 90 days. If any arch team fails to do so the
> > maintainer can decide to drop their keywords to testing. Given depgraph
> > breakages the maintainer can coordinate with the QA team to drop all
> > reverse dependencies to testing too.
>
> Seconded. Reality++
>
> Be prepared for some issues though. Sometimes maintainers don't agree
> with reasons arch teams provide that block stabilizations. In those
> cases, who makes the decision? My suggestion is QA.
QA is not a solution to everything. The problem Tomas is trying to
counter here is the idle/slacking arches. If the arch is active but have some
concerns regarding the stabilization then let the maintainer deal with
it. This is the way we do it now anyway
>
> Also, we should have someone to check for stale stabilization bugs. I'm
> not sure if all reporters are able to take care of that, especially if
> they have a lot of bugs open.
>
> Paweł
>
Thats really their problem. Arches can always remove themselves from the
bugs. No need to care about stale bugs. If the maintainers don't care
then we(arches) don't care.

Regards,
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
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