Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:47:27 -0700
Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Well, I meant that this should be doable without the maintainer's
> consent.  Meaning, I ask you to stabilize 1.0-r1 and a few weeks
> later, you can decide to stabilize -r2 without me having to file a
> bug. Basically, the maintainer decides the minimal revision he wants
> to go stable (so bugs are fixed, etc) but the revisions after that
> are up to the arch teams, unless the maintainer sees a need for
> everyone to update (major bug, security).  My main goal here is to
> reduce the "we have to wait on the maintainer to ask" issue within a
> given version of a package.

Well, that's probably ok when the higher revision is just a "fixed"
version, but if for example it includes new (invasive) patches or other
major changes to the ebuild it's a different story. But I'd hope we can
rely on common sense here.

Marius
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