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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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> The "30 days maintainer time out" stabilization policy isn't working |
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> when package has multiple SLOTs, because |
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> the bugs are filed for only latest SLOT, where as some packages require |
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> stabilization in sync at both SLOTs |
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> Option 1: |
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> Either revert the whole policy, and never CC arches on unanswered bugs |
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> when the package has a maintainer, |
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> and let him do it when he finds the time himself, and if that doesn't |
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> happen, wait until it's dropped to maintainer-needed@ |
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> Option 2: |
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> Or, the person who is CCing the arches in 30 days timeout, needs to make |
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> sure the bug covers all SLOT at the same time |
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> The status quo no longer allows me to maintain stable version of |
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> dev-libs/girara, app-text/zathura*, and the issue needs |
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> to be addressed, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/502714 for what inspired |
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> this mail |
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> - Samuli |
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If you want to prevent packages from being "timed out", just leave a |
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comment on the bug saying so. If you don't even have time to do that |
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within a 30 day window, why are you the maintainer? |
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Another option would be to add some kind of notation to metadata.xml. |