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From: Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:18:08
Message-Id: 20091102151707.0b155aab@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 Hi,
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3 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>:
4
5 > Some packages have new releases more than once a month and sometimes
6 > it's reasonable to not skip stabilization of any version. Given
7 > version of a package is usually no longer tested by users after
8 > release of a newer version, so I suggest the following change to the
9 > policy of stabilizations: Stabilization of given version of a package
10 > can be requested if this version has been in the tree for at least 10
11 > days and a newer version of this package has been added to the tree.
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13 If you do that, you will see arch teams skip those stabilisations in a
14 daily rhythm. Honestly, who should do that work? Having every minor
15 release stable is a big nuisance for arch workers.
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17 V-Li
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19 --
20 Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
21 <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode
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23 <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>