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From: Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable?
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:17:03
Message-Id: 17762877.QILiJV0Q1d@crow
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable? by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Friday, January 02, 2015 03:11:22 PM Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > On 02/01/15 02:57 PM, Mike Pagano wrote:
3 > > I understand your point. Maybe waiting a few days to auto stable
4 > > makes sense, because less than 7 days later, a new version with
5 > > bug/security fixes is released.
6 > >
7 > > Isn't our current rate of stabilization "selling" a promise of
8 > > stability we can't stand behind?
9 > >
10 > > Mike
11 >
12 > Well to be perfectly honest, the current-stable 3.16 and 3.17 kernels
13 > for me at least have some rather unfortunate regressions over 3.15 and
14 > previous, so even with the stabilization we're achieving now I don't
15 > think we're living up to our "promise of stability" :)
16
17 Exactly. It may give people a warm fuzzy feeling, but it's not like other
18 packages.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources - should we stable? Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>