Re: [gentoo-dev] taking a break from arches stabilization

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 07/10/2017 10:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:49:40 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>>> In the case of amd64 we already
>>> encourage individual package maintainers to stabilize their own
>>> packages
>>
>> Huh? Have our rules changed? As per devmanual[1] and GLEP 40[2]
>> stabilization must be carried out by arch teams, unless a special
>> arrangement is done between a developer and a team.
>>
>
> The docs are probably out of date - I'm not sure if the policy is
> documented anywhere.  However it has been a fairly longstanding policy
> at this point that amd64 allows individual maintainers to stabilize
> their own packages.
>

We looked after it for wg-stable (which died out as a result of rather
low participation, maybe it should be rebooted if people feel like
discussing this again), there isn't any authoritative policy allowing
it, GLEP:40 explicitly removes the possibility to do it for x86. That
said, for a number of packages maintainer stabilization can likely make
sense, the opposite view is four-eyes principle, it is always good to
have someone else build-test etc, but this is greatly helped by
tinderboxing efforts (thanks toralf) etc. So one likely output if
wg-stable is to come up with something would be a replacement GLEP for
40 that matches the current state, and also kernel auto-stabiliation (as
discussed in [section 3.2 (Kernel)]

References:
[section 3.2 (Kernel)]
https://download.sumptuouscapital.com/gentoo/wg-stable/main.pdf

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