Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:40 +0100
"Wulf C. Krueger" <philantrop@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> What's the proper fix for when keyword requests stagnate in
> >> bugzilla?
> > That depends upon whether the keyword request is important.
> 
> Let's take a real world example: KDE 3.5.5 is old, buggy and has
> some important issues which won't be fixed anymore.

Yet it's the most proven version on mips.

> > If it is (and legitimately so
> 
> I hope you'll accept it when I say that 3.5.5 is such a legitimate
> case now.

Why? It was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point.

> What would you suggest to do now? I think we've done all we could  
> short of the following:
> 
> a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more  
> importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of  
> packages.

...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for
your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when
they try to do anything.

> b) package.mask 3.5.5 with a big, fat warning and let the users  
> decide. Same drawbacks as a).

...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for
your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when
they try to do anything.

> c) Drop 3.5.5 from the tree. The cleanest but most radical solution.  
> If mips' users want KDE, they would have to bug (sic!) the mips team.

...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for
your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when
they try to do anything.

> The solution I favour by far is c). What's your suggestion or did I  
> miss any other viable solution? Just doing nothing is not an option  
> here, I'd say, but state your case.

3.5.5 was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point. Thus, it
can't be *that* bad.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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