From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nvm1t-00015w-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:31:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A9C1E07F9; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailfilter4.ihug.co.nz (mailfilter4.ihug.co.nz [203.109.136.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFCEE07EC for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:31:08 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkQGAAqUrkt2Xapt/2dsb2JhbACPS4tmdLwshQEEix4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,321,1267354800"; d="scan'208";a="253699022" Received: from 118-93-170-109.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz (HELO linux.localnet) ([118.93.170.109]) by cust.filter4.content.vf.net.nz with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 28 Mar 2010 19:31:06 +1300 From: Alistair Bush Organization: Gentoo Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:31:10 +1300 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100327205841.GA12996@linux1> <201003280747.28790.reavertm@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003280747.28790.reavertm@gmail.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: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003281931.10274.ali_bush@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4f4fe7cf-ffe3-47ff-9812-c39b17584169 X-Archives-Hash: 9204494e3a614da5edaec5efe7331b87 > On Saturday 27 of March 2010 21:58:41 William Hubbs wrote: > > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some random > php/perl library that's known to work. Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring the arch. If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do you care about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on their arch.