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 15E38138247 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CF14E0C41; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from baptiste.telenet-ops.be (baptiste.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE4CE0BBE for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:50:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TOMWIJ-GENTOO ([94.226.55.127]) by baptiste.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id Emqs1n01k2khLEN01mqsVi; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:50:52 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:49:54 +0100 From: Tom Wijsman To: pinkbyte@gentoo.org Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy Message-ID: <20140116234954.6bedffc6@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> In-Reply-To: <52D77A35.8080509@gentoo.org> References: <20140114213719.GA2684@laptop.home> <20140115004928.1fae6bf9@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <52D673A4.2080508@gentoo.org> <20140115180405.1cd06453@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <52D77A35.8080509@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; 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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/hTiP/iJ.4II9TK8DaX.HQmT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 1ed16d46-1715-436c-a82e-d0ce43182496 X-Archives-Hash: cea5487778d6b126e543b06f92df6597 --Sig_/hTiP/iJ.4II9TK8DaX.HQmT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:20:37 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > It can not go to no result, unless we have no breakages in stable, > stable REMAINS stable. If it contains old, but working software - then > it is stable. An ebuild promoted to stable is because an arch team (or a privileged maintainer to do it individually) has put a keyword in place. The person that puts that keyword in place, defines that the ebuild is stable at that specific point in time. However; this does not imply that as the ebuild gets older, that this doesn't come without problems; neither does it imply that the software is totally working. Software is rarely completely without bugs. > As i said earlier, problem begins when we NEED to stabilize something > to prevent breakages and arch teams are slow. Yes; there is a big correlation between breakages in old versions and stabilization, in both ways. --=20 With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D --Sig_/hTiP/iJ.4II9TK8DaX.HQmT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS2GISAAoJEJWyH81tNOV9SFcH/2Ii1vNxzkFVpOZfmVtmlIBg izYQSSMWx8qhPbfn1Wghw0GN7+0hFTzSxno3sVuuduOa8GTCDvuewgEZwSR0HR5R UrssvTCq8VWeDeuqw13HUB01LP7jMb0zHFVB/elHCJNOTu+mvZqZ3cj6AbfCgPWW Ic4RtMk2xVRfPi9/uCXNBDatUpVVU/WRuauLojicE4MNowa/ETKxPeeUi+/T0aiC IpEUnysTnZn8akZ0Vo+MH4yaf+ZC9HLu7u8I43OAbkL2IixPThyYi7P8TE+8dj7w h4PTcA1OZo2rArBZNehi/MSPoT3kjCOc+oSGZwhNKO0yxH9HVNSfRnt4pn5i4KE= =VKEh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/hTiP/iJ.4II9TK8DaX.HQmT--