From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24201 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Apr 2003 19:40:51 -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 20798 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2003 19:40:51 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:39:54 -0700 From: "C. Brewer" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030414123954.46e3135b.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> In-Reply-To: <1050332821.31618.10.camel@localhost> References: <1050272714.30123.5.camel@localhost> <200304140100.51467.rainer.groesslinger@gmx.net> <20030414073218.GB441@pobox.com> <1050332821.31618.10.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.(wz+m,ZGeDnuDm" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a process for marking ebuilds stable? X-Archives-Salt: bdf9da5d-6f22-4e03-a760-0b22ef7391ed X-Archives-Hash: 51184b062636eb40f5b25895f78645a2 --=.(wz+m,ZGeDnuDm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 14 Apr 2003 11:07:01 -0400 Brad Laue wrote: > Perhaps a combination. If it builds succesfully with ALSA, KDE, GNOME in > the USE flags and sufficient numbers of people report this, mark it > stable. Also leave three prior release versions available for > installation marked stable in case the latest introduces a flaw caused > by programmer error. Introduce patches and fixes to the ebuilds as bugs > are reported. While I don't oppose your or anyones use of KDE, GNOME, or alsa, some things must be taken into consideration. I, for one, don't use a desktop environment, preferring a window-manager for my tasks, and I'm sure that I am not alone. Therefore you have negated that many testers with this sort of proposal (I for one run completely unstable). Secondly, while alsa may be the sound system of the future, it does not support all cards and some people are restricted to the kernel mods. Shorten your list of testers again. And since KDE and such require X, you leave out all of your CLI users, which will probably be your most critical old-schoolers and ex-UNIX peeps (gross stereotyping here). I think that it should stay that if it builds and runs with a reasonable amount of positive reports vs. bugs then it should go stable. I just wanted to point out that certain matters of selectiveness will negate your amount of testers, and probably work against your ends. -- Chuck Brewer Registered Linux User #284015 Get my gpg public key at pgp.mit.edu!! Encrypted e-mail preferred. --=.(wz+m,ZGeDnuDm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+mw6P4cYuSvLqsAoRAgN5AJ9cpaULHig9d2IxK9mA8b0cNqiqKwCcClOh /Qe399W1wTp/ynlZhVXn8Fs= =iaK6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.(wz+m,ZGeDnuDm--