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From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>
To: slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk
Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:13:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140123201333.71e52bfc@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140123181242.GA17827@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:12:42 +0000
"Steven J. Long" <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Christopher Head wrote:
> > > If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always
> > > growing, obviously something has to be done. I just don't want
> > > "something" to mean "don't have a stable tree". The stable tree
> > > provides me with a benefit. If standards have to slip a bit to
> > > maintain timeliness, then I'd prefer a stable tree that's as
> > > stable as practical, accepting reality-- perhaps where users are
> > > able to submit reports of working packages, or where we let
> > > platform-agnostic packages be stabilized after one arch has
> > > tested, or various of the other suggestions in this thread. Just
> > > not no stable tree at all.
> > 
> > +1 as long as we can find effort and ways to keep it around.
> 
> What? Without a stable tree, Gentoo is useless afaic.

It moves us closer to upstream releases, a little more bleeding edge; a
lot of users and developers run that already, it is found to be useful.

> I don't think that's what was being proposed, though. The question was
> really the old complaint about slow architectures; the "-* arch"
> solution sounds like the most reasonable definition of "dropping"
> keywords, in the absence of AT communication otherwise.

Dropping keywords and specifying -* are a world apart of each other.

The former means that it is not ready for wide stable or testing users,
the latter means that it has been tested to not work at all;
furthermore, we need to explicitly specify which arches in that case.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-23 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 135+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14 21:37 [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy William Hubbs
2014-01-14 21:57 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-14 22:33   ` William Hubbs
2014-01-14 22:43     ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-14 23:11       ` William Hubbs
2014-01-14 23:22         ` Jeff Horelick
2014-01-15  0:28           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 23:59             ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-01-16  0:23               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  0:47         ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  1:08           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  1:11             ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  1:23               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  1:36                 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  2:09                   ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15  2:21                     ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  2:34                       ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  2:40                         ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  3:26                           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  2:46                       ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16  7:28                         ` Christopher Head
2014-01-16 22:44                           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-19 22:31                             ` Christopher Head
2014-01-20  0:47                               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-23 18:12                                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2014-01-23 19:13                                   ` Tom Wijsman [this message]
2014-01-23 20:55                                     ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-23 22:38                                       ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-23 22:42                                         ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-23 23:50                                           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24  0:04                                             ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24  3:04                                               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24  3:52                                                 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24 17:26                                                   ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 18:10                                                     ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24 19:29                                                       ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 20:29                                                         ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-24 21:55                                                           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-24 10:46                                     ` Steven J. Long
2014-01-24 18:26                                       ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-25  4:02                                         ` Duncan
2014-01-26  0:50                                           ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-26  0:59                                           ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-26  4:53                                             ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-26 11:41                                               ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-26 18:56                                                 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-26 21:35                                                   ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-27  7:41                                                     ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-27 14:52                                                       ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-28  2:45                                                         ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-26 22:56                                             ` Duncan
2014-01-26 23:40                                               ` Duncan
2014-01-28 12:37                                         ` Steven J. Long
2014-01-28 12:52                                           ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-28 13:18                                             ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-28 13:11                                           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-29  3:15                                             ` Duncan
2014-01-29  6:34                                               ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-15  2:42                     ` [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 11:33                       ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 16:57                         ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 17:20                           ` Matthew Thode
2014-01-15  2:26                   ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 11:28         ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15  0:13       ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  0:50         ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  1:13           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 23:13           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-01-15  0:04   ` [gentoo-dev] " Tom Wijsman
2014-01-14 23:49 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  0:06   ` Andreas K. Huettel
2014-01-15  0:17     ` Anthony G. Basile
2014-01-15  0:43       ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  0:38     ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  0:46       ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15  1:26         ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15 11:40   ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 17:04     ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-16  6:20       ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-16 15:54         ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 17:56           ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-16 18:04             ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-16 18:26               ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 20:18                 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-16 20:40                   ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 18:11             ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 18:42               ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-16 19:29                 ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16 19:59                 ` Peter Stuge
2014-01-16 22:49         ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  3:48 ` grozin
2014-01-15  4:49   ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15  5:07     ` Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-15  8:03     ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2014-01-15  8:18     ` Hans de Graaff
2014-01-15 16:11     ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2014-01-15  9:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2014-01-15 12:51   ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-15 21:41     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2014-01-15 11:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 11:30 ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-15 15:30   ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16  6:17     ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-17  6:06       ` grozin
2014-01-17  7:02         ` grozin
2014-01-17  7:58           ` Matt Turner
2014-01-17 15:02             ` Rich Freeman
2014-01-17 15:02           ` Michał Górny
2014-01-18  1:35             ` William Hubbs
2014-01-17 15:31           ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-17 16:47             ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-17 17:08               ` grozin
2014-01-18  0:34                 ` Manuel Rüger
2014-01-17 18:28               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-01-17 23:56                 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-18 12:59                   ` [gentoo-dev] arch="any" (Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy) Steven J. Long
2014-01-17 17:07             ` noarch packages, was Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy grozin
2014-01-19  8:36           ` Mike Frysinger
2014-01-19  9:28             ` Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy) Pacho Ramos
2014-01-19  9:46               ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Add a KEYWORD representing any arch Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-19 10:15                 ` Pacho Ramos
2014-01-20 19:25                 ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-22 15:46                 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-19  9:48               ` Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy) Mike Frysinger
2014-01-17 21:04         ` [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy Maciej Mrozowski
2014-01-15 18:33 ` Thomas Sachau
2014-01-15 19:07   ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16  0:58     ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-16  2:32       ` Robin H. Johnson
2014-01-16  5:47         ` Steev Klimaszewski
2014-01-19 11:06     ` Thomas Sachau
2014-01-16  6:27   ` Sergey Popov
2014-01-16  7:15     ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Palimaka
2014-01-15 19:13 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ruud Koolen
2014-01-15 21:54   ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth

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