From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2392 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Apr 2003 07:32:20 -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 3308 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 07:32:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:32:18 +0200 From: Fredrik Jagenheim To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030414073218.GB441@pobox.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1050272714.30123.5.camel@localhost> <200304140100.51467.rainer.groesslinger@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304140100.51467.rainer.groesslinger@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: Fredrik Jagenheim Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a process for marking ebuilds stable? X-Archives-Salt: 587cc3eb-25e2-40c0-bd02-07835ef90ae4 X-Archives-Hash: 231c839528df04099496f0339c5b8142 On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:00:51AM +0200, Rainer Groesslinger wrote: > stable.gentoo.org is _great_ ! Thanks so much to blizzy > (unfortunatly he's not in the dev team any more). The problem here > is that this site must be pushed quite hard because there are > packages in the tree only a few people use and if those people don't > use stable.gentoo.org they won't be stable anytime soon or might - > in a bad case - be pushed into stable because nobody complain > although it's just because nobody uses stable.gentoo.org I'm running a mix of 'stable' and 'unstable' packages. I try to report if they work as much as possible to the stable.gentoo.org, but it's hard to keep track of what I'm running as stable, and what I'm running as unstable... The problem is, that when I've just installed an unstable package, I can't say much about the 'stableness' of it, I can just say if it emerges or not. And if it didn't emerge properly, I would use bugs.gentoo.org, not stable.gentoo.org. And after running my unstable package for a week, I can witness of the stability of the package, but by then, I have forgotten all about reporting it... Thus, I propose an extension to emerge that would look through your system and see which packages are marked as 'unstable' and ask the user interactively if they think the packages are OK. The responses could be of the type: 1) Yes, I've used it extensively and it works. 2) Yes, I've used it somewhat and it seems to work. 3) No idea, I don't think I've used it, but nothing is broke. 4) No idea, I haven't used it at all yet. 5) No, it doesn't work and I've used bugzilla to report the bug. You hopefully get the idea... Combine it with some kind of cgi-gateway on stable.gentoo.org, similar to the one at the stats.gentoo.org and it would be quite simple for users to start tracking their unstable packages so they could be adopted for stable. I know, talk isn't worth anything and code is everything. ;) //H -- To segfault is human; to bluescreen moronic. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list