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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker arches
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 18:13:18
Message-Id: 4D45AA05.30109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Slacker arches by Markos Chandras
1 On 1/25/11 1:30 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 > QA is not a solution to everything. The problem Tomas is trying to
3 > counter here is the idle/slacking arches. If the arch is active but have some
4 > concerns regarding the stabilization then let the maintainer deal with
5 > it. This is the way we do it now anyway
6 >>
7 >> Also, we should have someone to check for stale stabilization bugs. I'm
8 >> not sure if all reporters are able to take care of that, especially if
9 >> they have a lot of bugs open.
10 >>
11 > Thats really their problem. Arches can always remove themselves from the
12 > bugs. No need to care about stale bugs. If the maintainers don't care
13 > then we(arches) don't care.
14
15 I was mostly thinking about cases like https://bugs.gentoo.org/329633
16 where indeed arches remove themselves from the bug, but there is a
17 dispute between them and the maintainer about the correct course of action.
18
19 The usual "conflict resolution" procedure would be to contact the team
20 lead, and eventually the council. However, I'm not sure whether that
21 would be optimal for stabilization bugs.
22
23 Paweł

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