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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:16:34 +0200 |
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hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 08/20/2013 08:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > My question is, how can we improve our stabilization |
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> > procedures/policies so we can convince people not to run production |
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> > servers on ~arch and keep the stable tree more up to date? |
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> Why convince them? They have been warned and it's their own problem. |
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> I don't see any BIG problem in our current stabilization procedure. |
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> Scripts for auto-filing stablereqs seem wrong to me. It's not just |
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> about "it was 30 days in the tree without a bug". The maintainer has |
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> to know about upstream bug reports and other crap that might be going |
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> on. |
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> Such things to speed up the procedure will only make it worse. |
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+1 at most it helps as a reminder to me; but indeed, a lot of these |
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reminders are false positive. What we really should do instead is look |
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for the worst offenders; in other words, which packages haven't been |
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stabilized for ages, which have a stable version of half a year ago? |
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See `imlate --mtime=180 -s | less`. (From app-portage/gentoolkit-dev) |
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I quote: |
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> 4392 Stable candidates for 'gentoo' on 'amd64' |
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Let's double the number to a year ago (360 instead of 180), I quote: |
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> 2728 Stable candidates for 'gentoo' on 'amd64' |
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And also get an impression of 3 months (90 instead of 180), I quote: |
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> 6065 Stable candidates for 'gentoo' on 'amd64' |
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At least the numbers for the year sound like something we will want to |
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deal with; from there, we could try to keep half a year low. And after |
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a while, we might end up ensuring stabilization within 3 months. |
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That's still three times more than our intended stabilization delay... |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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