From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S055D-0006em-KP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:49:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0129E15E9; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:49:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ED81E0F63 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0385C1B402F for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:48:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.588, BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6h6DqjXO1NIO for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4B281B4036 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S054H-0002HG-Bl for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:48:45 +0100 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:48:45 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:48:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Unstabling a package Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:48:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 19ecd49 /st/portage/src/egit-src/pan2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6ba2a6f4-c1a2-4fa8-bc53-d0de03b06aa8 X-Archives-Hash: 82a74b6e93948f559d29461eb458b47c Doug Goldstein posted on Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:46:32 -0600 as excerpted: > Any specific procedure to unstable a package? Specifically MythTV. Whil= e > there's a lot of user interest in the package, there's just not enough > dev help with the package to really keep it up to snuff to what could b= e > considered stable. Its woefully behind and I'd just be happier to drop > the current stable and bump everything as unstable. I'm not a mythtv user and know nothing about its technical side, but=20 FWIW, I'd suggest that if this is done, a news item, would be=20 appropriate. And if there's nothing extremely pressing about it, I'd=20 suggest a 60- or 90-day instead of a 30-day lead time, because as rich0's= =20 post suggests, mythtv users in general likely aren't the most update- happy folks around. (And FWIW, I'm ~arch by default anyway, so obviously don't have a problem= =20 with dropping stal^Hble keywording in general. I understand why people=20 want stable but that's what debian stable or redhat/scientific/centos,=20 etc, are for. IMO, cater to our strengths as a rolling release and leave= =20 the stal^Hble stuff for those with that as a strength. More time to fix=20 issues at decently current upstream stable that way! =3D:^) Of course, I= =20 don't expect that idea to go anywhere in general, but FWIW... and I /am/=20 the one suggesting a news item for those that /are/ stal^Hble, with a 90- day lead-time, even!) --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman