On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:24 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > >> I'd say no bugs, 30 days, passes internal tests, being run by users => > >> stablise, for the majority of packages (obviously, there may be some > >> exceptions...). > >> > > > > Luckily, you're not making the call. ;] > > > > The "majority" of packages are also the ones that need more extensive > > testing. Sure, we could probably stabilize a bunch of the fringe > > packages that hardly anyone uses and it wouldn't affect anything. > > That's actually how I read the first email, was that it's really the > majority of the _minor_ packages that get completely neglected, and just > sits in the tree for months or years marked unstable because nobody > cares. The people that use it have marked it ~arch a long time ago in > their package.keywords because they know it works just fine.
Well, we would hope that people using the package would file a bug, but this obviously doesn't always happen. > THAT stuff I wouldn't mind going through and just bumping to stable > myself. They don't need extensive testing, they don't need patches, > they work, and have been working, and just need arches flagged and > versions bumped. I'd have no problem with that so long as it was done by a person. I just don't trust that anything like this should ever be automated. Now, we could have an automated system to send out *alerts* on packages that have been in testing for more than 30 (or 60) days. We could even make it searchable by architecture and put it on a web page. We could probably also make it give some information about QA problems. We could even make it searchable by herd. That would be cool. I propose that we put up such a page and we call it http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable/ and make it publicly available. ;] > But, nobody likes doing the small stuff, and I can't blame them. True that. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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