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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:42:32
Message-Id: 20100302174150.GA26914@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline by Justin
1 On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote:
2 > On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote:
3 > > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy"
4 > > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be
5 > > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as
6 > > an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a
7 > > package? Is the 30-day policy the only policy?
8 > >
9 > > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile
10 > > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for
11 > > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the
12 > > arch manager would notice?
13 > >
14 > >
15 > You might be interested in those two things too
16 >
17 >
18 > http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2010/03/stabilizing-package-is-serious-thing.html
19 >
20 > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@l.g.o/msg36433.html
21 >
22
23 In a nutshell, anyone can request stabilization of a package. If
24 something has been in the tree for at least 30 days without issues and
25 there isn't a stabilization request filed for it already, feel free
26 to file one.
27
28 William

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Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>