From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 650CB138334 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2851BE0B9B; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pg1-f195.google.com (mail-pg1-f195.google.com [209.85.215.195]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA7E6E09CD for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pg1-f195.google.com with SMTP id v66-v6so4697101pgb.10 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:26:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=JdCZVo2hfgSNV3Fydw5o6XFQKJ0LL3pFzDF5TL77r2I=; b=hl+dBEMwlY2d8GH9eW+LPcE6wwAOEv5R1LsEw9BYJGjxTZA1rUBOA6z3HxAeiCntT4 H/FmfpnyK2frNWwiqsrGOsY7xd3FXxBi863FgjIh//ZTO8zlLXxPCVcmVSD251w90ZwO TofuZTV+b+y2sBAekHgUmHcsfeL4UpUDVD7OYQbggpwj/QX9IsE3c+HUBk9cszthvnlm qrHJLHIvG4D72T2mW0TJh5zEIs4kM5BvwPFVkwnLH6AjWJjp5uKqMa9DwpZwa6vllVJd rhjjqMBcMsamnuQUP31rqFRb2QmZTIL8TiaP+yMh/94l+0TSWO9g3UJ/amS4wE5LL5Ma 0JpA== X-Gm-Message-State: APzg51BAqOT4GnfCw73LK49cf3ScjA0y1C5gUWc4o14cavU5i7vOl+6O RXGw4XVtbzqF2mO43wfGD/3XaHRQzOtXLESHu/d/OA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ANB0Vdb+9Fh9MbdWbBtrYpZR3A/MNDUHVutAmxHf6BmQyhXhefCBgl7gzlk/VNuYVJBopgYo38fIeacpSQvEpHt+Tjo= X-Received: by 2002:a63:8c0b:: with SMTP id m11-v6mr12711911pgd.372.1536945995115; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20180909143221.21d784d02f51623e8c57c545@gentoo.org> <3585947.ej1ZtV7eBo@porto> <20180913223451.03b7d65e@sf> <4318377f-9428-d79a-3ba3-5b2c1ad68166@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: From: Rich Freeman Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:26:23 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing policy about -Werror To: gentoo-dev Cc: Richard Yao Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 6e388ca7-2c48-4a7b-ae0d-241918881355 X-Archives-Hash: ac54befd52cb98d91b192edb7d300d2f On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:22 PM Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Let's do this the other way around and be react based on facts and not > speculations. > Let's change the policy for a year for selected packages as I > outlined, monitor bugs and after a year see response times, affected > users and if downstream patches are accumulated. Then we can decide if > we need to patch upstream packages. Obviously up to QA/Council, but I think this sounds like a practical approach. No need to "change the policy" so much as approve a temporary exception, perhaps for a defined period of time. -- Rich