From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGNAL-0005BB-EE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:50:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8GKiEBf014223; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:44:14 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (range21-65.shlink.ch [217.148.7.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8GKfAuE011146 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:41:10 GMT Received: from aqua ([192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EGN3a-0005bV-MQ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:43:38 +0200 Message-ID: <432B2F1E.9080004@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:46:22 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) 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] first council meeting References: <20050915205149.GB22270@vino.zko.hp.com> <200509161942.37010.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20050916193804.78cc3627@snowdrop.home> <200509162048.58261.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20050916200225.7ab159ab@snowdrop.home> <432B1938.60102@gentoo.org> <20050916203406.7ff4d6b5@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20050916203406.7ff4d6b5@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5f41a88d-d16c-4a36-b118-72cdfb9144c1 X-Archives-Hash: cafd7ed8c74114dc6dc7a54d88acfc19 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Plus for stuff like gcc, it's very much an arch decision, not a package > maintainer decision. gcc was just the first example which came to my mind -- you can replace it with every other big piece of software that needs more testing than just 30 days. Or the other way around: There might be a new, not very popular package, so the maintainer didn't get any bug reports (=it works fine), but there might be a too little user community that you really could claim it rock-solid stable. -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead blubb@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list