Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please consider removing use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.mask

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:41:40 -0500
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Let's talk about the development workflow we use for a minute:
> 
> [...]
> 
> This is not a completely social issue; there is a very real
> technical/QA issue that needs to be addressed on the development side.
> If you can figure that out, we can talk about changing the end-user
> experience.

The existence of use.stable.mask and the end-user experience however
have no one-on-one mapping (or should not have it); so, currently from
the user perspective it is easy to put the blame on use.stable.mask
without entirely being experienced with it from a developer perspective.

The blame being put there might be a consequence of something being
more problematic towards the interface with the user; some form of more
proper feature, notification or communication missing. I think that we
should rather look at what kind of options we have to improve things
there, because I really don't see a change to the existence or
functionality of use.stable.mask coming out of this thread.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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