On Monday 02 February 2004 21:03, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Monday 02 February 2004 16:17, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > All --
> >
> > I've posted GLEP 19 which talks about the inclusion of a new 'stable'
> > tree in portage that is updated on a periodic basis and only contains
> > security and major bugfixes out of cycle.
> >
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0019.html
> >
> > Please take a moment to review the GLEP and offer any feedback or ask any
> > questions.
>
> Could you explain why you think that architecture specific stable keywords
> are necessary? Would that not create a too big strain on the arch
> developers. If a package is stable on an arch shouldn't it also be
> automatically a candidate for the stable tree?

Hi Paul, though I'm not the 'you', I will give my statement here.

Long time ago I thougth about having an unstable/stable and mature kind of 
flag here. The point is, that sometimes changes from ~arch to arch occur and 
a short time later a return to ~arch is needed because the responsible dev 
overlooked a point which became clear by the community. 

A jump from for example 'x86' to 'stable:x86' (which could also be denoted 
as !x68) should only occur if it 'seems' to be testet from the community for 
at least some days!

I hope you did get my point, if not, get back to me :-)

take care, have fun
/christian
EDDK

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