Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2016-08-14

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:36:41AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 10:28 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Besides our maintainers keeping old packages around, we are doing a
> > disservice to our stable users by offering them old software instead of
> > keeping them as current as possible.
> >
> 
> No argument, but if you actually asked stable users I'm not convinced
> that they'd prefer less-tested recent packages over well-tested older
> ones.  Anything to get things fresher is good, but there probably
> needs to be some kind of sanity check.

To clarify what I said earlier, if you are running full ~, there is no
way you can easily test your packages against the stable tree, so you
shouldn't be stabilizing anything, no matter which arch you are using.
To stabilize packages, you should be running a mostly stable system
other than the packages you maintain.

William



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