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* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
  @ 2014-01-16  7:28 99%                     ` Christopher Head
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From: Christopher Head @ 2014-01-16  7:28 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:46:04 -0600
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> s/month/year/
> 
> Do you feel the same way then? I have heard of stabilizations taking
> this long before. I just had to try to pick something reasonable for
> the discussion.
> 
> I suppose a compromise would be, instead of removing the old versions,
> move them back to ~arch for a month then remove them, but that still
> implies action on your part.
> 
> William

If I need or want a feature or bugfix which isn’t in the newer version,
I always have the choice to use ~. If I don’t, why do I care if the
package is a year old? I lose none of my time to use the old version,
since it does all I want; I lose a nonzero amount of time if I get a
version which breaks things (even if the only time I lose is the time
it takes to downgrade), so it’s in my best interest to use the stable
versions of such packages, even if they’re a month, a year, or three
years old.
-- 
Christopher Head

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2014-01-14 22:33     [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy William Hubbs
2014-01-14 22:43     ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-14 23:11       ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15  0:47         ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  1:08           ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  1:11             ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  1:23               ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-15  1:36                 ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  2:09                   ` William Hubbs
2014-01-15  2:21                     ` Michael Orlitzky
2014-01-15  2:46                       ` William Hubbs
2014-01-16  7:28 99%                     ` Christopher Head

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