Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep

[Stuart Herbert]

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:59 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> If it isn't fit to be marked stable, it shouldn't be out of
> package.mask. ~arch means "candidate for going stable after more
> testing", not "might work".

Agreed, but we both know that it's just not how many devs work atm.
Perhaps that is a problem that also needs to be solved?

There's also the issue that many users are happy running ~arch packages,
but are reluctant to test masked packages (making it difficult to get
enough feedback to move the package to ~arch anyway).  This is a bit of
a chicken and egg situation - one that the maintainer arch may provide a
new solution to.

Best regards,
Stu
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