On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 23:07 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote: > I also like alpha, but that is not what I am responding to. And I have to > admit that I haven't followed this too closely. But the "if one arch > stabalises..." assumption can be misleading. For example, xorg-x11 > maintainer arch is x86 (spyderous will correct me if I am wrong), but I > know of at least once instance in which sparc (and a few other archs) were > stable ahead of x86. > > Granted, spyderous knew what was going on and why, but for a few days > there, the "stabilises" rule of thumb with nothing more would have led the > unsuspecting reader to believe that maintainer arch for xorg was sparc.
No, because spyderous didn't do it. It should also be noted in the ChangeLog: "Marking stable on sparc because of $blah, which needs to be addressed quickly... got the OK from spyderous..." Something like that... -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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