On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:58:38PM +0100 or thereabouts, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I think that the whole update issue needs to be rethought. Will that be > done by fixed-tree maintainers (in cooperation with package > maintainers), or do package maintainers need to do it themselves. > > I think that in the end the updates need to go through a fixed-tree > maintainer in some way.
The creation of each stable tree release will be done by fixed-tree maintainers. However, off-cycle updates (as currently proposed) will be done by the package maintainers themselves. Because this is NOT a QA GLEP, I don't see the need to funnel off-cycle updates through a central team. It's going to be different enough to commit something to the stable tree to prevent accidental oopses in 99.9% of the cases. If someone deliberately commits something off-cycle to the stable tree, then that's a separate issue. Down the road, if the QA team decides they want to put more stringent QA checks in place to ensure better QA of the stable tree ebuilds, this is certainly an option. That is, however, outside of the scope of this GLEP. --kurt
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