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 1Kzh42-00027G-H0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDFDFE02BC; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7BFDE02BC for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:25:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (unknown [193.152.128.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C58E46509A for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4918D0BC.50202@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:24:28 +0100 From: Jose Luis Rivero User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925) 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] Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds References: <20081110181334.GD7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> In-Reply-To: <20081110181334.GD7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 048879c8-b410-4d97-9481-76d1c3ff3686 X-Archives-Hash: 362a2455775cf271b27ed291dd2c26a8 Mark Loeser wrote: > Removing Stable Ebuilds > > If an ebuild meets the time criteria above, and there are no technical issues > preventing stabilization, then the maintainer MAY choose to delete an older > version even if it is the most recent stable version for a particular arch. Mark, I think you are looking at the problem only with the ebuild maintainer hat put on. We have other players in our business, being one of them the users. This policy would bring too many problems to them so .. nono by my side. I would prefer to analyze the causes of the slacker arch (manpower, hardware, etc) and if we are not able to solve the problem by any way (asking for new devs, buying hardware, etc) go for mark it as experimental and drop all stable keywords. Thanks. -- Jose Luis Rivero Gentoo/Alpha Gentoo/Doc