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From: "Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:46:27
Message-Id: 431DF17E.5010302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2
3 >On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:25 -0400, Luis F. Araujo wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Chris Gianelloni wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>>On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 22:46 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote:
11 >>>
12 >>>
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >>>>Stuart Herbert wrote:
16 >>>>
17 >>>>
18 >>>>
19 >>>>
20 >>>>>I've no personal problem with arch teams sometimes needing to do their
21 >>>>>own thing, provided it's confined to a specific class of package.
22 >>>>>Outside of the core packages required to boot & maintain a platform,
23 >>>>>when is there ever a need for arch maintainers to decide that they know
24 >>>>>better than package maintainers?
25 >>>>>
26 >>>>>
27 >>>>>
28 >>>>>
29 >>>>I assume you're talking of the case where arch team and maintainer's arch are
30 >>>>the same. I think normally package maintainers can decide better whether their
31 >>>>package should go stable on their arch than an arch team, as they get all the
32 >>>>bugs for it. On the other hand, we can't define a "maintainer arch" in many
33 >>>>cases, so either we leave the authority to the arch team or we'll just have an
34 >>>>x86 arch team without the expected effects.
35 >>>>
36 >>>>
37 >>>>
38 >>>>
39 >>>I still think that the concept of a "maintainer arch" is completely
40 >>>broken anyway. I like the idea of adding something like a "maint"
41 >>>KEYWORD, or something similar to mark that the ebuild is considered
42 >>>"stable" material by the maintainer.
43 >>>
44 >>>
45 >>>
46 >>This keyword would be independent of any arch right?
47 >>
48 >>
49 >
50 >Correct.
51 >
52 >It would be a KEYWORD or some other variable that says "I'm the
53 >maintainer, and I say it is ready to go stable" without relying on any
54 >particular architecture to be an indicator of stability.
55 >
56 >
57 >
58 Perfect, i _highly_ agree with the idea then.
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