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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:31:21
Message-Id: 1269847838.24530.80.camel@tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies by Maciej Mrozowski
1 В Вск, 28/03/2010 в 07:47 +0200, Maciej Mrozowski пишет:
2 > No, seriously - given the fact that some of my packages were even stabilized
3 > without contacting me (app-misc/hal-cups-utils, app-admin/system-config-
4 > printer-common)
5
6 If you know packages are broken why they were not hardmasked? If they
7 have no problems what why it was bad idea to mark them stable?
8
9 > * solely up to the package maintainers to stabilize application on arches
10 > they're using or on any arch if package is arch-agnostic (optionally, but
11 > preferably with some peer review from other project members or arch team
12 > members).
13
14 In general package maintainer should avoid to stabilize the packages he
15 worked on as one of the arch team's goal was to have second eyes on
16 package before it goes stable.
17
18 > Role of arch teams would be decreased to peer review and solving KEYWORD
19 > requests.
20 >
21 > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some random
22 > php/perl library that's known to work.
23
24 Why wait? amd64 team requested help and every developer who tested
25 package on stable profile is allowed to mark package stable. For rare
26 archs it's possible configure search filters to avoid stabilization
27 requests.
28
29 --
30 Peter.

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