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

[Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:24 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I can think of two ways we can improve our situation.
>
> We can allow maintainers to stabilize new versions of certain types of
>  packages on all arches where there is a previous version of the package stable
>  without filing stable requests. This would take a significant load off
>  of the arch teams.
>
> For packages that do not fit the first group, we could require stable
> requests, but allow maintainers to stabilize the new versions after a
> timeout (I would propose 30 days).
>
> What do folks think?

I very much agree that there's a problem. Interestingly, for the
stable requests I file, it seems that e.g. alpha does better than
amd64 right now, thanks to having a very dedicated arch team.

It makes a lot of sense to me to allow maintainers to stabilize
packages after 30 days or so at least if there is a previous stable
version.

Cheers,

Dirkjan