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 1H2q4m-0000vA-Fz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:29:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l05ERV1B029164; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:27:31 GMT Received: from sas4.stonline.sk (sas4.t-com.sk [213.81.152.137]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l05EOf8t028405 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:24:41 GMT Received: from av-1.stonline.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by sas4.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l05EOex5014863 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:24:40 +0100 Received: from smtp.t-com.sk ([192.168.133.65]) by av-1.stonline.sk (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id l05FOgVF032757 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:24:43 +0100 Received: from amit.kihnet.sk (adsl-d141.84-47-28.t-com.sk [84.47.28.141]) by smtp1.stonline.sk (STOnline ESMTP Server) with ESMTPA id <0JBE0077BG13HZ@smtp1.stonline.sk> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:24:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by amit.kihnet.sk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3C0645C876D; Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:24:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:24:37 +0100 From: Robert Cernansky Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How packages are made stable In-reply-to: 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-Archives-Salt: f4d940c1-0c65-483d-8ac3-c246c19cd356 X-Archives-Hash: b96aedee6744a9f64d8fddc6cf45e75b On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:04:26 +0300 Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > Thanks for the threads. My impression is that the way stabilization > works should be described in a place of high visibility, at least in > the FAQ. I beleive this question will be asked again and again if > new users do not see how "stable" is defined early. If they see the > definition, no questions will be asked. For example, I do not think > that developers waiting for bug reports to stabilize an ebuild is > either wrong or correct. It is just a part of the current > definition of the term "stable". It is described in gentoo docs: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap4 See part "Moving package versions from ~ARCH to ARCH". I agree that this is perhaps not "a place with high visibility". Maybe it should be included into FAQs. Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: hslists2@zoznam.sk Jabber: HS@jabber.sk -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list