Re: [gentoo-dev] guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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cilly kirjoitti:
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Luca Barbato wrote:
> 
>> Keep in mind that the trade off is :
>>
>> - our time
>> - our sanity
>> - what provide to our used
>> - the quality of what we provide to out users.
>>
>> We all try our best to not burn out while serving you the best we could
>> think.
> 
> Does it make such a difference if ebuilds are kept for a few weeks?

Nope and they should usually be kept but we can't make a hard rule
because there are cases where the old ebuilds don't work any more. If
you find that a broken version slipped the cracks of the arch teams and
made it to stable with the old version removed, file a bug to
bugs.gentoo.org and hopefully the maintainer learns from his/her mistake
of removing it too soon. If the maintainer keeps on doing the same
thing, then you can try to escalate things to qa/devrel. If you are
using ~arch, then encountering some broken stuff is fully expected, just
file a bug and the maintainer is expected to react in a timely manner.

Regards,
Petteri


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