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

[Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>]

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On 08/05/2016 01:25 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:22 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 11:12:24PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Thank you for caring about this issue. I had similar thoughts
>>> >> myself, but was too slow on writing e-mail :) IMO stable tree has
>>> >> three problems:
>>> >> 1) too old packages
>>> >> 2) too few packages
>>> >> 3) stabilization often takes too long, such stable packages are
>>> >> broken or buggy, while their unstable versions are fixed and work
>>> >> fine. (It is not possible to fix all bugs without version or
>>> >> revision bump, thus stabilization is needed to fix many bugs.)
>> >
>> >  "too few packages" doesn't really affect things much, I'm more
>> >  concerned about 1 and 3. If packages are not stable in the first place,
>> >  that is because the maintainer hasn't requested stabilization, and that
>> >  is a separate issue.
> I'm less concerned with old (within reason) and few.  I think the
> primary criteria has to always be that the packages are reliable.  If
> somebody wants to make the tradeoff less reliability and fresher
> packages they can just install testing.
> 

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