Re: [gentoo-dev] qa last rites multiple packages

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 04:33:19PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 02:48:01PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:08:21PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:29:15PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:11:32AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:47:10PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > > > > All,
> > > > William,
> > > >
> > > > At what point do we not care about users who have not upgraded and will
> > > > miss this security message?
> > >
> > >  I would say that's more up to you as the maintainer, but put something
> > >  to the affect in the mask comment.
> > >
> > >  # This mask will be removed <whenever>
> > >
> > > William
> > >
> >
> > Fair enough. This question is to anyone that supports users and works on
> > bugs.  Especially the portage devs. At what point do you say to a user
> > that their system is so old that they really need to upgrade?
> >
> > 2 years, 1 year, < 1 year?  Maybe that's a good thing to state in documentation.
>
> We already have a distro policy about this. I put ulm on this email
> specifically, because he knows where the link is, and I don't right now.
>
> Basically, at the distro level, anything over a year old is fair game to
> be dropped.
Ok, here it is:

the council decided that the portage tree must provide an upgrade path
to a stable system which hasn't been upgraded for one year [1].

That's pretty general. What I would say about the kernel situation is,
it should be up to the maintainers, and it can be removed sooner if
g-sources-3.17.0 was never stabled.

William

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109-summary.txt