From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1650 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Oct 2003 17:49:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31030 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 17:49:00 -0000 From: Ian Leitch To: foser Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1065537011.21682.93.camel@rivendell> References: <1065476836.4871.22.camel@Interimo.Intern.LAN> <200310071146.04769.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1065528430.21682.79.camel@rivendell> <200310071504.08534.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1065537011.21682.93.camel@rivendell> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1065552596.4139.63.camel@Interimo.Intern.LAN> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:49:56 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Three teir portage: stable, prestable, unstable? X-Archives-Salt: 239e9952-5edb-4ad3-9db1-eba28c68265b X-Archives-Hash: 8cc2b8502e0cd3b288c023a5a230f17c 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list