From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8335138350 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36DD1E08A8; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B778FE08A0; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ecd680aa-dc80-468c-a602-807c0477f3b3.fritz.box (unknown [IPv6:2001:4060:c005:3f00:9491:b020:96bd:fae]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: soap) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E3ED934E12E; Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <687ef833a2652bd18b36d8b58dcf744e3351ead2.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Dropping alpha keywords to unstable From: David Seifert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: alpha@gentoo.org, gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:14:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20200116054708.GA603076@p50-ethernet> References: <20200116054708.GA603076@p50-ethernet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.32.5 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c83c1cd9-e7fb-440a-8db0-a0c4d083fa23 X-Archives-Hash: 5d2ec75f62ccb03a3135bf5e3624b97c On Wed, 2020-01-15 at 21:47 -0800, Matt Turner wrote: > Hello, > > It makes me a bit sad to say, having helped maintain Gentoo's DEC > Alpha > port for more than 10 years, that I think it is time to drop our > stable > keywords to ~alpha. > > Stable testing is a valuable service we provide to users. Time > invested > by developers during stabilization has the potential to pay dividends > to > users multiple times over. > > But the presumption in that statement is that the number of users > meaningfully greater than the number of developers. I no longer > believe > this is the case for Alpha. > > As a result, I don't think it's a good use of my time to perform > stable > testing on alpha. > > I plan to keep the profiles "stable" (meaning no depgraph breakages) > but > to change to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~alpha". > > Thoughts? > > Matt Thanks Matt, this will also help developers in cleaning up their packages. I highly support this move.