* Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting
@ 2005-09-17 9:28 99% ` Kevin F. Quinn
0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Kevin F. Quinn @ 2005-09-17 9:28 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
How about if the maintainer wants wider testing, i.e. wants to move
it out of package.mask and into ~arch but isn't confident it's ready
yet for arch, adding a string variable to ebuilds indicating why the
maintainer considers the package unstable, eg:
UNSTABLE="#100435, #100345, unconfirmed break with foo"
The maintainer would simply alter this line as bugs get confirmed or
resolved. If a package wants to stay ~arch for longer than normal,
even though there are as yet no reports of problems, the maintainer
can just keep it set to something:
UNSTABLE="gaining maturity"
The arch team could consider an ebuild without an UNSTABLE line
as a candidate for stable, and it provides an easy way for maintainers
to communicate what issues are known with a package to the arch team
(and anyone else who is interested).
The 30-day could be calculated from the $Header: of ebuilds that have
no UNSTABLE, or where it's empty.
Kev.
--
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
^ permalink raw reply [relevance 99%]
Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2005-09-16 19:00 [gentoo-dev] first council meeting Daniel Ostrow
2005-09-17 9:28 99% ` Kevin F. Quinn
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox