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 1H2kpp-0006Om-Rj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:53:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l058pmBi001738; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:51:48 GMT Received: from sas1.stonline.sk (sas1.t-com.sk [213.81.152.132]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l058ng6e013069 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:49:42 GMT Received: from av3.stonline.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by sas1.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l059niht018743 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:49:44 +0100 Received: from smtp.t-com.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by av3.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l058nfu5013152 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:49:41 +0100 Received: from amit.kihnet.sk (adsl-d141.84-47-28.t-com.sk [84.47.28.141]) by smtp2.stonline.sk (STOnline ESMTP Server) with ESMTPA id <0JBE009WX0IT9W@smtp2.stonline.sk> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:49:41 +0100 (CET) Received: by amit.kihnet.sk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 95C535C876A; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:49:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:49:30 +0100 From: Robert Cernansky Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable In-reply-to: <459D686C.7050304@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: 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 X-Mailer: Mahogany 0.67.0 'Constance', compiled for Linux 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE References: <459D686C.7050304@gentoo.org> X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 459E1F38.000 on sas1.stonline.sk : j-chkmail score : XX : 0/100 2 0.000 -> 2 X-Archives-Salt: a9446c2b-aac7-43c4-b978-2c3ffd669208 X-Archives-Hash: f5ab674ea4b3d042076077390b6b60af On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb 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 -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: hslists2@zoznam.sk Jabber: HS@jabber.sk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list