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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change or revert the "30 days maintainer timeout" stabilization policy
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 06:40:43
Message-Id: 1396507227.28072.40.camel@belkin5
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change or revert the "30 days maintainer timeout" stabilization policy by Mike Gilbert
1 El mié, 02-04-2014 a las 14:22 -0400, Mike Gilbert escribió:
2 > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3 > > The "30 days maintainer time out" stabilization policy isn't working
4 > > when package has multiple SLOTs, because
5 > > the bugs are filed for only latest SLOT, where as some packages require
6 > > stabilization in sync at both SLOTs
7 > >
8 > > Option 1:
9 > >
10 > > Either revert the whole policy, and never CC arches on unanswered bugs
11 > > when the package has a maintainer,
12 > > and let him do it when he finds the time himself, and if that doesn't
13 > > happen, wait until it's dropped to maintainer-needed@
14 > >
15 > > Option 2:
16 > >
17 > > Or, the person who is CCing the arches in 30 days timeout, needs to make
18 > > sure the bug covers all SLOT at the same time
19 > >
20 > >
21 > > The status quo no longer allows me to maintain stable version of
22 > > dev-libs/girara, app-text/zathura*, and the issue needs
23 > > to be addressed, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/502714 for what inspired
24 > > this mail
25 > >
26 > > - Samuli
27 > >
28 >
29 > If you want to prevent packages from being "timed out", just leave a
30 > comment on the bug saying so. If you don't even have time to do that
31 > within a 30 day window, why are you the maintainer?
32 >
33 > Another option would be to add some kind of notation to metadata.xml.
34 >
35
36 The script CCing arches is at:
37 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/arch-tools.git;a=blob;f=maintainer-timeout.py;h=ba8c322a4d7a834e274e0b7587c22f5d8ba8ce08;hb=HEAD
38
39 Not sure if anyone has enough knowledge to improve it covering option
40 two :/ (handling both slots)