Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable

[Robert Cernansky <hslists2@zoznam.sk>]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
> > Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 
> > for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or 
> > Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the 
> > process described)? 
> They need to be in the tree for at least 30 days, no bugs, and if 
> someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test it, 
> and then a dev will keyword it stable.
> 
> Most stuff doesnt get marked stable mostly because there aren't any 
> stable requests.

Stabilisation bug it not a requirement. Package should go to stable
after 30 days + no bugs even without stabilization bug. I have an
impresion that developers are _waiting_ for stabilization bugs which
is wrong.

I've raised a similar question few months ago. It's pretty long
discussion on -user and -dev:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/166565/
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/40719/

Robert


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