Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:55:34 -0600
Steev Klimaszewski <steev@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 20:13 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> The complaint is slow to stable arches

Yes.

> by specifying "-* arch" it would signify that ONLY that arch uses
> that version of the ebuild - and it would be up to the arch team to
> remove it once they've stabled the new version - and considering the
> complaint is only about slow arches, there's nothing additional to
> specify in there - it's REMOVING arches that have stabled a newer
> version already, so they are unaffected.  

As this is a suggestion that is made by someone else, whom I have
already replied to stating this is a world apart from the discussion
in this thread; I am skipping this entire paragraph, I think you meant
to send the reply to the other person with his/her post as In-Reply-To.

> On the other hand, you're suggesting that we don't actually bother
> with stabling things or actually testing that things are properly
> stable, allowing anyone to decide when something is stable, whether
> they have access to the hardware to actually test that it works.

This is missing reference, and thus I doubt if that is my suggestion.
Looking back at the entire context of this thread, I have made several
"ideas" as various options; which was done as to feed the discussion to
consider several viewpoints.

> You and a few others keep talking in the theoretical

This thread is based on an actual problem.

> while I've shown an actual problem but you and the others
> conveniently ignore ACTUAL problems in favor of your possible
> problems.  Please stop.

Well, as seen on #gentoo-dev you shoot down solutions. Please consider.

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