Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:59:56 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| baselayout is an example, any package can be used here (although not
| many are as critical)
| 
| i'm saying that the maintainer may have a certain idea of when the
| package is ready for stable (a target feature set, working out
| certain quirks, etc...). your current hard view does not allow for
| that.  for example, i had an arch maintainer one time mark bash-3
| stable before base-system was ready for it (readline, baselayout,
| etc... were going to be stabilized together).  i smacked them hard
| for it, but if we went with this hard view, it would have been
| perfectly acceptable behavior. -mike

There is nothing in this view that says "consulting the package
maintainer is not part of the stable decision-making process for arch
teams".

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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