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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: blueness@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:44:44
Message-Id: 20140115014341.0338fa63@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:17:35 -0500
2 "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 01/14/2014 07:06 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
5 > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2014, 00:49:28 schrieb Tom Wijsman:
6 > >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600
7 > >>
8 > >> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
9 > >>> Thoughts?
10 > >> In this situation, I see three opposite ends of choices:
11 > >>
12 > > Here's another idea:
13 > >
14 > > 4. Friendly ask the arch teams / make a policy that @system
15 > > packages come first.
16 > >
17 > > (maybe these stable requests could be marked "major" in bugzilla
18 > > then?)
19 > >
20 > >
21 >
22 > Actually that's a very good idea. In fact, since those are the
23 > critical packages we can have the arch teams focus on them, and allow
24 > more relax policies of stabilization on less critical packages.
25
26 Besides allowing certain packages to be set a higher policy, we could
27 also recommend that maintainers lower it if needed; for example:
28
29 If I want to stabilize some plugin, it doesn't really have to be
30 put "Normal" you know; I wouldn't bother it to be "Enhancement".
31
32 --
33 With kind regards,
34
35 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
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