From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jm4Gz-0002HA-Pe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:49:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22AC7E059B; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dsrg.mff.cuni.cz (dsrg.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.20.55]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C56E059B for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vpn-ksi-dsrg.ms.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.20.92] helo=[10.10.16.171]) by dsrg.mff.cuni.cz with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jm4Gx-0001P3-6X for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:49:47 +0200 Message-ID: <4805CBBA.5030100@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:49:46 +0200 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080303) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Early stabilisation References: <20080415224619.387012bc@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <20080415224619.387012bc@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a653bc66-a9d6-4912-ba8e-a23ddf5e41b3 X-Archives-Hash: b09bc02bbf1c35155b42d211bb609f88 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > Dear ebuild maintainers, > > > thirty days is the norm for the minimal period between an ebuilds last > non-keywording change while in the tree and the usual call for > stabilisation. If you cannot find a pressing reason to push > stabilisation forward, then don't ask. In the last few days I have seen > several early calls for stabilisation (bugs #217148, #217845, #217841 > and #217839 for instance) where no adequate reason was given, in my > opinion. Given that 3 of the 4 are from one person, I wouldn't draw broad conclusion from this. > A good reason might be an important fix of a severe bug, a fix for a > build problem that couldn't be applied to a stable version but had to > go into an ebuild revision, or a version/revision that fixes a security > problem. > > On the other hand, maybe these early stabilisation bug reports are a > sign of the times and we need to shorten the normal thirty day period, > become even more of a cutting edge distro - or at least discuss the > options. I'd say leave the current norm and smack the misbehaving maintainers :) Caster -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list