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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:29:39
Message-Id: 20140216182924.21226a88@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords) by Jeroen Roovers
1 On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:48:57 +0100
2 Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:23:27 +0100
5 > Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
6 >
7 > > > > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the
8 > > > > actual maintenance of the ebuild to the arch team; such that it
9 > > > > becomes the arch team's responsibility to deal with it, or
10 > > > > rather don't deal with it
11 > > >
12 > > > How would that ever work?
13 > >
14 > > The responsibility is moved away from the maintainer; and thus also
15 > > its bugs, as well as the need to rely on a newer version to become
16 > > stable.
17 >
18 > The (slightly rhetorical) question was how an understaffed team could
19 > be realistically expected to start maintaining ebuilds. Your entire
20 > reply missed that point.
21 >
22 > The answer to the question is that you can't.
23
24 The deepest quote contains "or rather don't deal with it".
25
26 --
27 With kind regards,
28
29 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
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