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 60AEB1384B4 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46E0EE086F; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F549E0810 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 11:23:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id tAIBN7lI016023 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:23:07 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id tAIBN6Ac020115; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:23:06 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id tAIBN6f7020111; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:23:06 +0100 Message-ID: <22092.24474.785940.585860@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:23:06 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! In-Reply-To: <564C5D05.4080805@gentoo.org> References: <20151117230934.15218644.mgorny@gentoo.org> <564BAE1D.5090103@gentoo.org> <564BCE9E.6050403@gentoo.org> <564BE0CB.3030509@gentoo.org> <22092.10244.685936.324131@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <564C4403.40302@gentoo.org> <22092.23414.863950.329173@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <564C5D05.4080805@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller 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; boundary="pgp+signed+qoLasUgLPCXyQA6"; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 0913dd62-8ab8-4436-84f9-4d703bbaabaa X-Archives-Hash: c55a30610faad7164cbb8018533bca13 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --pgp+signed+qoLasUgLPCXyQA6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Alexander Berntsen wrote: >> And on what basis would you stabilise Portage, when there are no >> ebuilds in the tree to test its EAPI 6 code? > When I do QA in projects I'm involved with (at least outside of > Gentoo), we don't do it live on end-user systems. I'll leave the > details as an exercise for the Gentoo developer. That sort of QA should take place before making a new Portage relaese. I was talking about marking it stable, though. Quoting the devmanual: arch Both the package version and the ebuild are widely tested, known to work and not have any serious issues on the indicated platform. "Widely tested" has always meant tested on unstable users' systems. Ulrich --pgp+signed+qoLasUgLPCXyQA6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWTF+OAAoJEMMJBoUcYcJzF9AIAMuX57eVPQr2aSNsfCDHcTzZ 86CAaMKI/nkEU8lOl21hfy6rAoJwPeiDUT0ZsJ5QEZmk3NSYLAm/b2dtCt+ECxnd 2yxoFiqmTqxMDPBFLGRRkN2OPTgj19viFyvEmXhdwpvq5YDLK42G3RrtIjuERW/h d1ibzAHu34YYDqzXTXC2eXZwKslwyQ1vmU/K2m2iQKHctr46+OU4WBQTPQCfU3Qy VDCeGgzR8RxYB3prtgVg6sexIfq3XELjGcJr14x90mWf8NfxA4eOFuGXfbedu6BK BeFaFto6Ax3DNStxxNDK59OLBufsPHuzesMz12D16XKfqX7shOAFOIwzhXaEyX8= =Ix2/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp+signed+qoLasUgLPCXyQA6--