From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBzpJ-00082v-G6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:06:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j84J2Fag032742; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 19:02:15 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j84IwDor007675 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 18:58:14 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBzjt-0006M8-7n for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:01:14 +0000 Received: (qmail 10134 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2005 14:00:06 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 4 Sep 2005 14:00:06 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] tentative x86 arch team glep Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 14:00:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050904143711.GD23576@dst.grantgoodyear.org> In-Reply-To: <20050904143711.GD23576@dst.grantgoodyear.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509041400.41299.vapier@gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j84IwDor007675 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id j84J2FcF032742 X-Archives-Salt: c77f0d4a-33a2-41b9-8422-b0e247a9b2e2 X-Archives-Hash: 0fa0f50c8b6063e7d94bcad96b83b9a1 On Sunday 04 September 2005 10:37 am, Grant Goodyear wrote: > This policy for x86 is quite different from how every other arch marks > packages stable. =A0For the non-x86 archs, each arch has a specific "ar= ch > team" which is responsible for moving packages from ``~arch`` to ``arch= ``. > =A0This approach has worked quite well for the non-x86 archs, and this = GLEP > asserts that the same approach would benefit x86 as well. this isnt quite true ... non-x86 archs usually take their queues for when= =20 packages should be moved to stable from the maintainer of the package in other words, arch teams generally defer to maintainers (and rightly so= ) as=20 to when newer versions should go stable -mike --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list