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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-09-10
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:09:06
Message-Id: 20130915200856.42e8752c@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-09-10 by Rich Freeman
1 On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:03:28 -0400
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3 > So, how about this as a policy:
4 > If a maintainer has an open STABLEREQ, or a KEYWORDREQ blocking a
5 > pending STABLEREQ, for 90 days with archs CCed and otherwise ready to
6 > be stabilized, the maintainer can remove older stable versions of the
7 > package at their discretion. A package is considered ready to be
8 > stabilized if it has been in the tree for 30 days, and has no known
9 > major flaws on arches that upstream considers supported.
10
11 The danger of this approach is that it encourages arch teams to stable
12 even if they're not convinced something's been tested sufficiently.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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