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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:50:57
Message-Id: f837bc61-08a8-4606-9a0b-6018cba421f1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Working Group established to evaluate the stable tree by Kristian Fiskerstrand
1 On 08/15/2016 04:49 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
2 > On 08/15/2016 04:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
3 >> I'm very much for this as well. Themaintainer should be able to
4 >> stabilize on all arches after the timeout. That would solve the primary
5 >> concern I have about the stable tree lagging.
6 >
7 > It depends on the context, if it is not security related or fixing a
8 > known bug, it can cause regression for stable users without much gain.
9 >
10
11 Elaborating on this, if we're talking about maintainer stabilizing it
12 after testing it properly there is no issue, but there shouldn't be a
13 policy to auto-mark stable
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