From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D0D1381F3 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E6F9E0AB8; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.stuge.se (foo.stuge.se [212.116.89.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 37FCEE0AB3 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:49:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9910 invoked by uid 501); 24 Jul 2013 17:49:24 -0000 Message-ID: <20130724174924.9909.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:49:24 +0200 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources stabilization policy change Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1462872.zkzQFHQRNq@comanche> <20130724173751.8848.qmail@stuge.se> <51F0125D.2090500@yahoo.ca> 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="0aF+6pWUK5w8WdCh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51F0125D.2090500@yahoo.ca> X-Archives-Salt: 4a62d1ee-38e4-4f48-9df0-cdbddccae6b2 X-Archives-Hash: 17a0f122e31ea55c59e40db8bb93577e --0aF+6pWUK5w8WdCh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alex Xu wrote: > > Maybe it would make sense to automatically stabilize every v-s kernel > > right away? >=20 > As has been stated, this implies that Gentoo QA has tested the packages > and found them to be reasonably safe for use. =2E. > Although stable kernels *have* been tested by many people before use, > Gentoo QA has *not* (officially) tested them, at least not on every > architecture. I don't think that matters. > On a technical level, it's not that hard to put > "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources" in your package.accept_keywords. But why should Gentoo users have to do that in order to use v-s? If it is intentional to push g-s onto users then it makes good sense - but if I were the sys-kernel team I wouldn't bother with g-s at all and just make v-s as easily available to users as possible.. //Peter --0aF+6pWUK5w8WdCh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFR8BOkhR3Q0dhIfEgRAtm7AKDADPEiz9ZQJDS9UKXVbE+He8pyagCfYmar ZaURVBRmUyS+ssQeK8SiuMg= =VrXd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0aF+6pWUK5w8WdCh--