[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: stabilization policies

[Michael Palimaka]

On 21/08/2013 07:05, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> See `imlate --mtime=180 -s | less`. (From app-portage/gentoolkit-dev)
>
> I quote:
>
>> ==============================================
>> 4392 Stable candidates for 'gentoo' on 'amd64'
>> ==============================================
>
> Let's double the number to a year ago (360 instead of 180), I quote:
>
>> ==============================================
>> 2728 Stable candidates for 'gentoo' on 'amd64'
>> ==============================================
>
> And also get an impression of 3 months (90 instead of 180), I quote:
>
>> ==============================================
>> 6065 Stable candidates for 'gentoo' on 'amd64'
>> ==============================================
>
> At least the numbers for the year sound like something we will want to
> deal with; from there, we could try to keep half a year low. And after
> a while, we might end up ensuring stabilization within 3 months.
>
> That's still three times more than our intended stabilization delay...
>
For those not familiar with imlate, please note that these numbers 
include packages that have never been stabilised.