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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:21:25
Message-Id: 4AEDEDBE.9030107@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations by Richard Freeman
1 Richard Freeman wrote:
2 > Mart Raudsepp wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Is it stated in any documentation that 30 days is a policy?
5 >>
6 >
7 > Not that I'm aware of - it is a guideline as you indicate. However,
8 > don't expect anybody to actually take action on a STABLEREQ if there
9 > isn't some kind of rationale for going stable so quickly.
10 >
11
12 Yes it's a guideline that you should follow unless you can give reasons
13 to deviate.
14
15 >
16 > The whole point of stable is that they provide some sanity to the
17 > release process - if upstream releases a new version every other week
18 > then perhaps we should either:
19 >
20 > 1. Question whether it should go stable at all.
21 > 2. Pick a version once in a while and target it for stabilization,
22 > backporting fixes as needed.
23 >
24
25 Yeah one can question if adding every release is really important for users.
26
27 Regards,
28 Petteri

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