[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/confuse: confuse-2.7.ebuild ChangeLog

[Duncan]

hasufell posted on Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:11:52 +0100 as excerpted:

> I was told a while back (I might still have it in irc logs), that 30
> days is NOT a rule. It's common sense, but in the end the maintainer
> decides when to request stabilization, no one else.

I can confirm the 30-day-guideline policy was just that, a maintainer-
discretion guideline, back in 2005/2006 or so when I first became aware 
of the concept via discussion.  It was explained as maintainer knows 
their packages best, with the caveat that arch-teams also knew their archs 
best and could choose not to stabilize right away if they decided the 
request wasn't appropriate for their arch.

I've seen no council, etc. decision changing that, over the years.

Sometime a bit thereafter, various understaffed archs began to yield 
stabilizing authority to non-arch-team maintainers on a package-by-
package basis, generally with at least the requirement that said 
maintainer actually had access to and had tested on that arch.  AFAIK, 
before that maintainers weren't to stabilize at all on archs they weren't 
team members of, but they could still do so if they were a member of the 
arch-team, provided of course that they were following arch-team policy 
in the process.

Meanwhile, jer's explanation, that on an arch where the package was not 
previously stable, there could be no stable users of the app to see 
regressions, so straight to stable makes a bit more sense, makes perfect 
sense to me. =:^)

If I'm arguably too verbose, vapier's arguably not verbose enough.  Had 
he just said something like either of these instead of simply punting 
with his replies... I guess it would have stopped there.

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