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 1NvzCn-0006Hq-5f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:35:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37D5AE0762; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D58E0931 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:35:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws10 with SMTP id 10so988741vws.40 for ; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:date:from:to :subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=uBZFkRFqJCkeW8SloeM7bW9WglEzRaNUA3zm8cvbQW8=; b=moK+UzUC1Tc0nxk48u+XzHP5EioUileMUKnAknMOJ292v8+ix90DM5qgUyj+BCcoxG vMpURLMilg7V7PWqPxfbuJIh6vFWaoRlruIhSrYCmOzJjUaXLsq9XMwPK1s0hhGuUEE3 LVOoUGDuVgbewFmgzd6aMOF5ctV7s8HDCQJAQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=q+ixK9S2ntahmWn9Og4ek7YXc3CHg8rxLnVBog5nwm+Sn265hihLJWQ3gpOjawurAv WzjGXLJHau/CB6ANJsiaguJrh0wqJ7a0ZAnnLVrebkfVvvPp/Uik5DFqaSPL/e+AxrQB Nv1jd7bvqjB3+p/4J3W4qZHr0B5L/+ECrBqYM= Received: by 10.220.127.34 with SMTP id e34mr2444442vcs.149.1269808518117; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-183-49-63.tx.res.rr.com [76.183.49.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 25sm79433653vws.1.2010.03.28.13.35.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:35:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:35:14 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Reworking package stabilization policies Message-ID: <20100328203514.GA14855@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20100327205841.GA12996@linux1> <201003280747.28790.reavertm@gmail.com> <201003281931.10274.ali_bush@gentoo.org> 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="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201003281931.10274.ali_bush@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 59e4842a-9d2f-4348-8129-b569094e6cdc X-Archives-Hash: 7d5855c3257afca3378826d4d8492e13 --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 07:31:10PM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: > > On Saturday 27 of March 2010 21:58:41 William Hubbs wrote: > >=20 > > It's really freaking silly to wait months for stabilization of some ran= dom > > php/perl library that's known to work. >=20 > Have you ever just considered closing the stabilization bug and ignoring = the=20 > arch. If they take so long to mark your packages as stable why do you ca= re=20 > about them enough to even attempt to stabilize anything on their arch. =20 If they have old versions of the package stable on their arch, ignoring them wouldn't be the right answer either. That makes you keep the old versions around because the arch team isn't keeping up. William --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuvvYIACgkQblQW9DDEZTjP1QCeNeo+3rXVkbNTZ4VEtCi7REwI EwYAoJwPV4yITb68kjO3mxlHm6vAE23e =UgSt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH--