* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
@ 2014-01-14 22:43 99% ` Michael Orlitzky
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From: Michael Orlitzky @ 2014-01-14 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 01/14/2014 05:33 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>>>
>>> 2. I would like to see the policy below applied to all arch's [2].
>>
>> [ ] Yup
>> [X] Nope
>
> The reverse of this would be to let maintainers stabilize on all arch's
> after 90 days, then they are allowed to remove all but the latest stable
> version. This isn't good though because maintainers would be stabilizing
> packages on arch's where they can't test.
>
> The stable tree is significantly behind because the arch teams are so
> short staffed, and this prooposal is an attempt to fix that.
It's attempting to fix a headache with a bullet. The arch teams are
lagging behind, you're annoyed, I get it. Give 'em hell. But don't break
stable to make a point.
For users, both options are worse than the status quo.
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