From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16834 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Oct 2003 18:10:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 22643 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2003 18:10:37 -0000 From: "brett holcomb" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro Web Mailer v.4.0.6 Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:10:34 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1065552596.4139.63.camel@Interimo.Intern.LAN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Three teir portage: stable, prestable, unstable? X-Archives-Salt: d51a8e2f-7f41-40a6-8b73-afdf3dadda68 X-Archives-Hash: db0593ae5fdc0baff7ac9c3900a030f4 What's wrong with the alpha beta being part of ~arch? If someone is working with alpha/beta stuff they know what they're looking for? I really don't see a need to have a multi-tier mess to keep track of alpha/beta/gamma stuff. If it's arch it is stable and works. If it's ~arch it may be broken and break your system. When the developer deems it's okay it moves to arch. On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:49:56 +0100 Ian Leitch wrote: >On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:30, foser wrote: >> I think the the problem is uninformedness about the >>policy, does it even >> get properly read by new devs ? They assume they can do >>it because they >> see another dev do it and so it spreads, you don't solve >>these problems >> by accommodating them. > >OK, so say something was done and from now on all devs >only submited >packages to ~arch that they deemed stable but whos ebuild >could do with >some more testing. Where does that leave the beta and >alpha software >that a lot of Gentoo users love so much (myself >included)? Places like >BreakMyGentoo would only become bigger and more breakage >would incur >from the lack of QA. If we had an unstable branch, devs >would be able to >keep up Gentoo's repretation of being a bleeding edge >meta-distribution. >At the same time we could offer alpha gnome releases >within our control. >Ofcourse a plan to combat the extra pointless bug reports >would need to >be thought about, but I see that as a small side effect >compared to the >benefits. > >Regards, >Ian. > > >-- >gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list