From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCZp0-0005cM-IB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:14:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D31CE043E; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:13:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8558AE043E for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F5918D306 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:19:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cx4jKfe8vGyv for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:19:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from posidon.ferdyx.org (posidon.ferdyx.org [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3F8D8D305 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:19:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by posidon.ferdyx.org (nbSMTP-1.01-cvs) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) ferdy@gentoo.org; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:13:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:13:09 +0100 From: "Fernando J. Pereda" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20080109121309.GA14454@ferdyx.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <54551.192.168.2.159.1199365359.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54551.192.168.2.159.1199365359.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: c20bca1f-2e37-41c4-8b8e-40c12e961e6d X-Archives-Hash: 5776219b23d0dbafb77cc9b14113ab7e --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:02:39AM -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote: > > If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole > > Gentoo dev list to see. >=20 > I would like to request the council discuss, though not necessarily take = action or > vote on, the idea of "slacker arches" and what ebuild maintainers are all= owed/can do > to a package versions that are languishing due to not getting stable keyw= ords on > those arches. >=20 > I'm not trying to pick on any specific case, but I am hoping to find out = if there's > an allowable/acceptable period of time to which if an arch team is unable= to > stabilize a package to a newer version, for non-technical reasons, that i= t's okay to > drop older unstable ebuilds. Why taking it against arch teams? How is that different from "certain maintainer not taking care of a bug that holds stabilization of certain package by some time measured in months" ? I'll tell you my answer: 'no difference at all'. Note that I'm probably responsible for some real situations related to what I said both as an ebuild maintainer and as an arch developer. So nobody should take this as slacker-calling since we are all VOLUNTEERS and we do what we want. However, a fine example of that is: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D181275 - ferdy --=20 Fernando J. Pereda Garcimart=EDn 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHhLpVCkhbDGC9KNQRAvn1AJ9oAnnONNpiZU2un8ak7+CR8l2oXwCaAwpH GDPapRsjWVE9ecCTY652eUM= =3/Uy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list