From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H2zQ3-0006Kq-CV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:28:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l060Q3t1000185; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:26:03 GMT Received: from mail99.megamailservers.com (mail99.megamailservers.com [216.251.36.99]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l060NsFL025140 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:23:55 GMT X-Authenticated-User: sdibb.knightsbrg.com Received: from [192.168.1.241] (64.50.56.200.ptr.us.xo.net [64.50.56.200] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail99.megamailservers.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l060NpB3022590 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 19:23:53 -0500 Message-ID: <459EEC17.2000504@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:23:51 -0700 From: Steve Dibb User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061110) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable - suggestion for improvement References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bd5136d8-4aec-4da3-befe-1c4cbb2aac1d X-Archives-Hash: d577d870895b2026bd0b6ddbe4fd2b33 Daevid Vincent wrote: > But as I read this thread, it seems that in effect, I won't really be > getting a more stable system, I'll just be getting an older, out of date > one, as nobody is actively monitoring packages and then flagging them as > stable. :( > The problem, like many other things, comes down simply to manpower. I should stress, again, that popular, common applications and utilities are going to get marked stable on a regular basis. For the most part, its only the small, fringe programs that get lost in the cracks. And getting some tools in place to display how long packages have been unstable is in the works. Still though, there is just so much work to be done in the first place, not many developers go looking for things to mark stable. It makes things a lot simpler if that offload is placed on the users instead, because that way 1) we don't focus manpower on stabilizing everything just because its been 30 days and 2) we stabilize stuff that people are using anyway, and want to get marked stable. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list