From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2A8aipl002378 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:36:44 GMT Received: from mx.ineton.ro ([217.156.27.7] helo=mx.loginet.ro) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9J9v-0008D0-Vx for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:36:44 +0000 Received: (qmail 8182 invoked by uid 204); 10 Mar 2005 10:36:43 +0200 Received: from mrness@gentoo.org by hera by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:. Processed in 0.088374 secs); 10 Mar 2005 08:36:43 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mrness@gentoo.org via hera X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 0.088374 secs) Received: from technosoft.ro (HELO ?192.168.19.2?) (217.156.27.32) by mx.ineton.ro with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 10 Mar 2005 10:36:43 +0200 Message-ID: <4230071B.7040401@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:36:43 +0200 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041213) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please follow keywording policy References: <20050308185536.58ecbe3c@enterprise.weeve.org> <422EA7E2.4040206@gentoo.org> <422EFCA6.2010607@gentoo.org> <422F0D2E.1040301@gentoo.org> <20050309162258.624316be@snowdrop> <422F3482.8020607@gentoo.org> <20050309183846.426af19a@snowdrop> <422F46F3.4030208@gentoo.org> <422F7F4B.4090406@gentoo.org> <20050310043425.GF10754@dst.grantgoodyear.org> In-Reply-To: <20050310043425.GF10754@dst.grantgoodyear.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9ED6BFD6CB6A199E3A6CC13A" X-Archives-Salt: fb6a2fa5-0046-4e36-b909-b378d810df72 X-Archives-Hash: 1e48834ffe2a702bf428feafa6e2f6a0 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9ED6BFD6CB6A199E3A6CC13A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Grant Goodyear wrote: >Alin Nastac wrote: [Wed Mar 09 2005, 04:57:15PM CST] > > >>Btw, what is the sense of ~arch if not "testing"? No gentooer >>expects from a ~arch ebuild to be stable, so the sky would not fall if >>you made a mistake and release it under this keyword. When I hear "I >>cannot mark foo library as ~arch because I don't know how to test it" >>smells like excuse to me. >> >> > >*Sigh* The meaning of ~arch is that, at a minimum, the package works >for the person who keyworded it (or, in some cases, worked for a trusted >user on whose behalf the package was keyworded). In other words, the >dev believes that the package works, and that belief is based on >evidence, not just wishful thinking. An "arch" keyword means that there >is considerable evidence that the package works for multiple people. >Packages that might work, but also might not, ideally should not be in >the tree at all, but could reasonably be package.mask'ed if testing is >imminent. > > > Not every time when I receive a new ebuild submittion, I also test that package because this is not always possible. Usually, I add the new ebuild with ~x86 and let testing to the user who request that. It may not be the orthodox way, but the risk of breaking something else in the process is 0 (a new ebuild means no other ebuilds depends on it). Users don't usually come to me and say "that ebuild works for me". I take silence as a sign that everything works. I am sure I'm not the only one doing that. I ask arches to mark a new ebuild as stable because a know bug have been solved or because the old stable version breaks something else. --------------enig9ED6BFD6CB6A199E3A6CC13A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCMAcbRZBYwhawvi4RAsoZAJ90joGKkWF5ulwCq132byhnQd0x+gCffRAb DjvKeyTsS31yXe/bKPWF/Io= =q1n8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9ED6BFD6CB6A199E3A6CC13A-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list