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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:37:56
Message-Id: B241D523-E3C2-4128-8CAA-734DD7439868@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status by Fabian Groffen
1 Dnia 11 stycznia 2018 08:43:32 CET, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> napisał(a):
2 >On 07-01-2018 21:25:28 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >> I'd like to follow this with a more precise proposal. Namely,
4 >redefine
5 >> the current profile statuses to apply the following:
6 >>
7 >> a. stable -> fully tested, all depgraph breakages are errors,
8 >>
9 >> b. exp -> fully tested, all depgraph breakages are warnings,
10 >>
11 >> c. dev -> developer's playground, not tested.
12 >
13 >I always was under the impression the following order (and explanation)
14 >was the case:
15 >
16 >stable -> development -> experimental
17 >
18 >For this reason, e.g. Prefix profiles are (still) experimental, which
19 >means they really shouldn't bother non-Prefix people. Prefix users and
20 >developers work on an environment where those profiles are promoted to
21 >development ones, such that repoman kicks in for their work. (At least
22 >that was the idea.)
23 >
24 >I see you (re-)define dev as "developer's playground", and I wonder if
25 >in that case it wouldn't be better to introduce a new one instead?
26 >
27 >Maybe I'm just one of a few who thinks the order is reversed now.
28
29 Ulrich has pointed out good enough proof that the ordering should be as you say, so I'll correct my proposal.
30
31 >
32 >Thanks,
33 >Fabian
34
35
36 --
37 Best regards,
38 Michał Górny (by phone)