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On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 21:47 -0800, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> It makes me a bit sad to say, having helped maintain Gentoo's DEC |
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> Alpha |
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> port for more than 10 years, that I think it is time to drop our |
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> stable |
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> keywords to ~alpha. |
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> |
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> Stable testing is a valuable service we provide to users. Time |
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> invested |
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> by developers during stabilization has the potential to pay dividends |
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> to |
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> users multiple times over. |
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> But the presumption in that statement is that the number of users |
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> meaningfully greater than the number of developers. I no longer |
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> believe |
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> this is the case for Alpha. |
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> As a result, I don't think it's a good use of my time to perform |
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> stable |
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> testing on alpha. |
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> I plan to keep the profiles "stable" (meaning no depgraph breakages) |
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> but |
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> to change to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~alpha". |
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> Thoughts? |
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> |
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> Matt |
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Thanks Matt, this will also help developers in cleaning up their |
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packages. I highly support this move. |
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