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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:41:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100302174150.GA26914@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8CCC9A.6040502@j-schmitz.net>

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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote:
> On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote:
> > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy"
> > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be
> > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as
> > an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a
> > package? Is the 30-day policy the only policy?
> > 
> > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile
> > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for
> > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the
> > arch manager would notice?
> > 
> > 
> You might be interested in those two things too
> 
> 
> http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2010/03/stabilizing-package-is-serious-thing.html
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg36433.html
> 

In a nutshell, anyone can request stabilization of a package.  If
something has been in the tree for at least 30 days without issues and
there isn't a stabilization request filed for it already, feel free
to file one.

William


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-01 15:39 [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline Lie Ryan
2010-03-01 18:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-03-01 21:31 ` Justin
2010-03-02  8:30 ` Justin
2010-03-02 17:41   ` William Hubbs [this message]
2010-03-02 18:03     ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-02 17:52 ` Mark Loeser
2010-03-02 19:04   ` [gentoo-user] " Lie Ryan

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