* Re: [gentoo-dev] ekeyword and ordering
@ 2005-06-07 11:23 99% ` Simon Stelling
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From: Simon Stelling @ 2005-06-07 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Hi,
Aron Griffis wrote:
> - A few people, myself included, pointed out that there's some
> valuable information available when keywords are always added to
> the end rather than being alphabetized. In particular, the
> concept of a "maintainer arch" is possible, in which the first
> arch in the list is supposed to indicate general stability of
> the ebuild, a leader for other arches to follow.
>
> - Some people disagreed with the "maintainer arch" concept. They
> felt that the arch teams do a better job of testing than some
> maintainers, and there's no point waiting for a maintainer to
> decide something is stable.
>From [1]:
|When a package version has proved stable for sufficient time and the
|Gentoo maintainer of the package is confident that the upgrade will not
|break a regular Gentoo user's machine, then it can be moved from ~ARCH
|to ARCH. An indication of the package's stability would be no verified
|or unresolved bug report for a month after the version's introduction.
If that policy is dropped, I'd prefer alpha, otherways append.
Greetings,
blubb
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1
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Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
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