Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic filing of stable requests

[Petteri Räty]

Tobias Scherbaum wrote:
> Thilo Bangert wrote:
>>>> Now what do people think about extending metadata.xml so that you
>>>> could have these
>>>> bugs filed automatically when there are no open bugs? Something like
>>>> a <auto-stable-request enabled="true"/>
>>>> element with the DTD setting the default as true and you could just
>>>> use a <auto-stable-request /> shorthand.
>> good idea.
>
> +1
>
>>> I'm all for it. It would need to take version restrictions -- for
>>> example, I may be willing to have xorg-server 1.5.x go stable but not
>>> 1.4.x.
>> perhaps auto-stable should be the default (not needing the tag), only
>> allowing things to be masked from it.
>
> I'm not sure if it's really useful to have this as a default - for
> example i keep nagios-3 packages intentionally ~arch for now. Tagging
> them as "not ready for stabilization yet" would introduce something
> between ~arch masked and package.mask - i don't think that's worth the
> effort.
>
> From both a maintainers and arch-developers view: I'd like to see
> automatically generated stable requests, but I'd leave it up to the
> maintainer/herd/team to add architectures after a quick review (also if
> there's a auto-stable-request tag set in metadata!).
>
>   Tobias

So we would have <auto-stable-request add-arches="false" /> with it
defaulting to true.

Regards,
Petteri