Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

[Brian Harring]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:14:08PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 19:42 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > On Friday 16 September 2005 00:20, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > actually this is came up in the meeting as something we would like to see
> > > spelled out explicitly ... either as a GLEP itself or as a policy update to
> > > current stabilization practices
> > >
> > > the GLEP was approved on the grounds that we need an x86 team and that it
> > > needs to be treated as any other arch ... arch team interaction with
> > > maintainers should be spelled out clearly rather than part of a single
> > > sentence '... or make individual arrangements with the x86 arch team.'
> >
> > Ok, I do think that we will need a way for the maintainer to indicate that the
> > package is stable. I'd be happy to leave stabilizing out of my hands, but I
> > wouldn't want my packages to be stabilized before I deem it stable.
> >
>
> File a bug if the arches (or main ones at least) haven't picked it up
> yet?  Will make the problem of missing some or other keyword minimal
> (especially for some obscure package not often used).
I would prefer this route, personally.

Jamming a maint keyword into the ebuild is kind of ugly from where I 
sit :)
~harring