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On 29 August 2013 14:16, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 29 August 2013 14:09, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 08/28/2013 01:15 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>>> The feedback on the original question was mostly positive. |
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>>> Most people agree that the long stabilization queues for these |
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>>> architectures create problems |
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>>> for maintainers wishing to drop old versions. |
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>> Is this the only motivation? Drop all the effort that has been put into |
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>> stabilization work on minor arches just for some impatient maintainers? |
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>> Keywording/Stabilization is a process we all agreed on joining, so live |
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>> with it. |
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> Minor arches holding up GLSAs and removal of vulnerable stable ebuilds |
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> for 3 months or more is *not* acceptable, and not something I agreed |
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> to when joining... |
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> If they can't even do security stabilizations in a reasonable |
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> timeframe, they have no business being considered stable arches. |
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> -- |
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> Cheers, |
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> Ben | yngwin |
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> Gentoo developer |
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I don't understand why moving an arch to ~testing is considered such |
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an insult by their members and |
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they react like this. It works great for MIPS, it can work great for |
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the others too. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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