Re: [gentoo-dev] Three teir portage: stable, prestable, unstable?

[Ian Leitch <port001@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:30, foser wrote:
> I think the the problem is uninformedness about the policy, does it even
> get properly read by new devs ? They assume they can do it because they
> see another dev do it and so it spreads, you don't solve these problems
> by accommodating them. 

OK, so say something was done and from now on all devs only submited
packages to ~arch that they deemed stable but whos ebuild could do with
some more testing. Where does that leave the beta and alpha software
that a lot of Gentoo users love so much (myself included)? Places like
BreakMyGentoo would only become bigger and more breakage would incur
from the lack of QA. If we had an unstable branch, devs would be able to
keep up Gentoo's repretation of being a bleeding edge meta-distribution.
At the same time we could offer alpha gnome releases within our control.
Ofcourse a plan to combat the extra pointless bug reports would need to
be thought about, but I see that as a small side effect compared to the
benefits. 

Regards,
Ian.  


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