From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JAZwR-00034v-1j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:57:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id m03NuoJU009919; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:56:50 GMT Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (aa013msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m03NstnY007546 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:54:55 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.53] (89.96.196.148) by aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.118.6) id 46B1A27C09EE77BB for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 00:54:55 +0100 Message-ID: <477D75CA.1030003@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:54:50 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071127) 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] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <54551.192.168.2.159.1199365359.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> In-Reply-To: <54551.192.168.2.159.1199365359.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 79d1548a-ec9a-4565-9567-f2101cd4bc5e X-Archives-Hash: 192084105460770b06c2dae0e6b4a1a0 Caleb Tennis wrote: >> If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even >> vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole >> Gentoo dev list to see. > > I would like to request the council discuss, though not necessarily take action or > vote on, the idea of "slacker arches" and what ebuild maintainers are allowed/can do > to a package versions that are languishing due to not getting stable keywords on > those arches. > I'd suggest something like "if nobody could test your update in a timely way you should ask and possibly get an account on an arch box in order to test it and bump if the minimal test pass" sounds fair? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list