From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.shlink.ch (mx1.shlink.ch [217.148.0.19]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j57BNXEn031836 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 11:23:33 GMT Received: from localhost (spamfilter [217.148.0.24]) by mx1.shlink.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208161556E for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:23:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx1.shlink.ch ([217.148.0.19]) by localhost (spamfilter.shlink.ch [217.148.0.24]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61153-09 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:23:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.10.5] (range21-65.shlink.ch [217.148.7.65]) by mx1.shlink.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7AB915899 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:23:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42A583CD.2090201@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:23:57 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050324) 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering References: <20050606222623.GI9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20050606222623.GI9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at shlink.ch X-Archives-Salt: 48ccf50a-6d9c-4757-ac61-52b5aef2fea8 X-Archives-Hash: 0358153fdca554f81e7d954a5ff8fe10 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 -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead blubb@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list