Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering

[Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>]

Hi,

Aron Griffis wrote:
>     - A few people, myself included, pointed out that there's some
>       valuable information available when keywords are always added to
>       the end rather than being alphabetized.  In particular, the
>       concept of a "maintainer arch" is possible, in which the first
>       arch in the list is supposed to indicate general stability of
>       the ebuild, a leader for other arches to follow.
> 
>     - Some people disagreed with the "maintainer arch" concept.  They
>       felt that the arch teams do a better job of testing than some
>       maintainers, and there's no point waiting for a maintainer to
>       decide something is stable.

>From [1]:
|When a package version has proved stable for sufficient time and the
|Gentoo maintainer of the package is confident that the upgrade will not
|break a regular Gentoo user's machine, then it can be moved from ~ARCH
|to ARCH. An indication of the package's stability would be no verified
|or unresolved bug report for a month after the version's introduction.

If that policy is dropped, I'd prefer alpha, otherways append.

Greetings,

blubb

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1
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Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
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