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From: Roman Gaufman <hackeron@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:36:03 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:18:33 +0000 Roman Gaufman <hackeron@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> | Would make a very nice QA measure. Any outdated/broken ebuild could be
> | auto reported to bugzilla and removed in 72 hours if no responce.
> 
> Eh? Huh? By "QA measure" you mean "ways of making loads of QA problems"?

You know better, but why would this cause QA problems? -- if
maintainer disappeared and the package just sits there for years,
hell, let it be removed. Otherwise, a maintainer can just reply to bug
report and not be asked about it again.

> | I think gentoo really needs QA measures of this sort. Like in debian,
> | packages get moved up from unstable to testing automatically if no
> | critical reports were made for 2 weeks.
> 
> We've already discussed over and over why we can't do this. It would be
> a QA nightmare.
ok, that would be a QA nightmare. I'm just giving an example of how
another popular distribution automates some of their QA (this example
shows how not to do it though).

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