On 21 May 2013 19:32, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 5/21/13 6:38 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, you can ping him >> or, without a response, try to get a different maintainer. Just assuming >> that a stable request is ok without a maintainer response is really not >> a good idea. > > Thomas, this effort is going on for over a year now (and has been > discussed on gentoo-dev). If it's only now you've noticed, maybe the sky > isn't falling after all. > > Note the criteria for the bugs to be filed: > > 1. No open bugs for the package. > 2. No bugs (including closed) for that particular version of the package > (so for example closing the stabilization bug will prevent it from being > opened again; it also takes into account bugs closed with e.g. NEEDINFO, > which can be real issues). > 3. At least 30 days in tree. > 4. No repoman errors when trying to stabilize it (so all deps already > stable). > > Also, arch teams are responsible for at least shallow (compile) testing > of the package, and ideally smoke testing on run and possibly testing > with various USE flag combinations and reverse dependencies testing (the > latter is a regular part of my stabilization workflow, and the script > for that is part of the same suite that files bugs). > > Note that there is a tradeoff here: I really started the stabilizations > after I've noticed how many bugs are fixed in ~arch that still affect > stable, but the fixing version didn't get stabilized. This is the > downside of an opt-in approach, since inactive maintainers are not going > to opt-in. > > Finally, everyone from metadata.xml is CC-ed. There is no "trying a > different maintainer" - all of them are there since day one. > > Please let me know if you still have concerns - ideally back them with > data and actual cases showing problems (or scenarios that can reasonably > be likely) instead of just saying it _might_ lead to breakages. Anything > _might_ lead to breakages, including taking no action here and allowing > bugs to be not fixed for stable. :) > > Paweł > >
I'd rather not see this process changes, because it has helped bringing the stable tree up2date. However, given that *a few* people don't like it, I suggest you don't file bugs for packages owned by them. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
