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* [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
  @ 2014-01-23 18:12 99%                   ` Steven J. Long
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From: Steven J. Long @ 2014-01-23 18:12 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, Christopher Head wrote:
> > If stable really is falling behind and the backlog is always growing,
> > obviously something has to be done. I just don't want "something" to
> > mean "don't have a stable tree". The stable tree provides me with a
> > benefit. If standards have to slip a bit to maintain timeliness, then
> > I'd prefer a stable tree that's as stable as practical, accepting
> > reality-- perhaps where users are able to submit reports of working
> > packages, or where we let platform-agnostic packages be stabilized
> > after one arch has tested, or various of the other suggestions in this
> > thread. Just not no stable tree at all.
> 
> +1 as long as we can find effort and ways to keep it around.

What? Without a stable tree, Gentoo is useless afaic.

I don't think that's what was being proposed, though. The question was
really the old complaint about slow architectures; the "-* arch"
solution sounds like the most reasonable definition of "dropping"
keywords, in the absence of AT communication otherwise.

-- 
#friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)


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2014-01-15  1:11     [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy 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               ` Christopher Head
2014-01-16 22:44                 ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-19 22:31                   ` Christopher Head
2014-01-20  0:47                     ` Tom Wijsman
2014-01-23 18:12 99%                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long

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