* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
@ 2014-01-15 2:46 99% ` William Hubbs
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From: William Hubbs @ 2014-01-15 2:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 09:21:51PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 09:09 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >
> > After the package has been sitting in ~arch for 90 days with an open
> > stable request with no blockers that the arch team has not taken any
> > action on. We are not talking about randomly yanking package versions,
> > just doing something when arch teams are not responsive, and it seems
> > that the cleanest thing to do would be to remove the old versions.
> >
>
> People running stable value... stability. I would much rather wait for
> the arch teams to get un-busy than to be forced to upgrade to something
> untested. Why would I care if it takes another month? Strictly from a
> user's perspective. I don't, unless I do, in which case I know that I
> do, and I could just keyword the thing if I wanted to.
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
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