Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-09-10

[Ben de Groot]

On 29 August 2013 14:09, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote:
> On 08/28/2013 01:15 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> The feedback on the original question was mostly positive.
>> Most people agree that the long stabilization queues for these
>> architectures create problems
>> for maintainers wishing to drop old versions.
> Is this the only motivation? Drop all the effort that has been put into
> stabilization work on minor arches just for some impatient maintainers?
>
> Keywording/Stabilization is a process we all agreed on joining, so live
> with it.

Minor arches holding up GLSAs and removal of vulnerable stable ebuilds
for 3 months or more is *not* acceptable, and not something I agreed
to when joining...

If they can't even do security stabilizations in a reasonable
timeframe, they have no business being considered stable arches.

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Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer