On 25.10.2012 16:16, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:

> 
> 
>  Also please post these things
>> to gentoo-dev mailing list next time. This mailing list is for 
>> project wide non technical issues.
> 
> 
> It was suggested to me to post here because #1) it's a policy
> discussion rather than a technical one, and #2) it reaches a bigger
> audience as many devs have tuned out to gentoo-dev@ ..
> 

My educated guess is that most of those who are tuned out of gentoo-dev
don't follow this mailing list either. Last time we looked at
subscription numbers gentoo-project had less people than gentoo-dev.
Those who suggested you to post here didn't know our mailing list
policies. Granted it's not always easy to know where to post. Discussing
technical policies belongs to gentoo-dev. Especially in matters like
these that concern the Portage tree.

>
> As for your previous statement -- I was not aware of a policy that
> excludes EAPI bumps from occurring on stable packages.  This would
> certainly suffice to alleviate the original concerns and probably be
> more effective as a policy than always requiring revbump on EAPI change.
> 

There's a general policy that one should refrain from changing the logic
for ebuilds marked stable. EAPIs so far haven't introduced features that
would require being urgently but to stable.

regards,
Petteri