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 1JCeJ3-0004x8-O9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:01:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBF7FE04C9; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:01:31 +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 3A7EBE04C9 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 027C38D306 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:07:56 +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 cgLQ4Zj6CsRn for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:07:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCC68D305 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:07:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:01:23 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20080109170123.7a176c0a@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20080109174940.83232kfqqlgpipls@www2.mailstation.de> References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080105043233.0935d2f8@snowcone> <61307.68.54.223.178.1199541823.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080106003356.46087fef@snowcone> <20080106233412.5875626f@snowcone> <1199829889.8108.12.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109021735.42cd3856@snowcone> <1199846287.8108.143.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109024125.3bfc9479@snowcone> <20080109024724.12bd71fc@snowcone> <1199847569.7893.6.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109144434.0c16695e@snowcone> <37083.192.168.2.159.1199892973.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080109154450.59bf52fd@snowcone> <20080109174940.83232kfqqlgpipls@www2.mailstation.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary="Sig_/8XF+JFKQu42E922B+jys5Ci"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f60de018-e135-4190-8755-da14c8dffe13 X-Archives-Hash: 5eb40b99b357a9acdb34a32885485e86 --Sig_/8XF+JFKQu42E922B+jys5Ci Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:40 +0100 "Wulf C. Krueger" wrote: > >> What's the proper fix for when keyword requests stagnate in > >> bugzilla? > > That depends upon whether the keyword request is important. >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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 =20 > short of the following: >=20 > a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more =20 > importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of =20 > 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 =20 > 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. =20 > 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 =20 > miss any other viable solution? Just doing nothing is not an option =20 > 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/8XF+JFKQu42E922B+jys5Ci Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHhP3l96zL6DUtXhERAi6kAJ9Bx1oc2zLNl4Gd0iIOQzN8xf+KqgCgmDJa 5BUXXQxQazNuokkyXQ6wXvM= =CBGW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/8XF+JFKQu42E922B+jys5Ci-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list