Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy for late/slow stabilizations

["Tony \"Chainsaw\" Vroon" <chainsaw@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 18:04 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> As many of you have already noticed, there are some arches that are quite
> slow on stabilizations. This leads to deprecated stabilizations e.g a
> package is stabilized after 60 days which makes that version of
> the specific package obsolete and not worth to stabilize anymore.

So you would suggest to be like Ubuntu and say "we can not be bothered
to support any minority architectures anymore". This effectively
disbands all architecture teams except AMD64 and X86; it should be
subject to the same scrutiny (I suggest a council vote) as a GLEP or
EAPI change.
Personally I would like to hear stronger reasons then "it inconveniences
me when a bug I file is open longer then a month" to destroy the current
diversity of supported architectures (be it PowerPC or a prefix
installation on OS X).

Regards,
Tony V.

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