El mié, 02-04-2014 a las 14:22 -0400, Mike Gilbert escribió:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The "30 days maintainer time out" stabilization policy isn't working
> > when package has multiple SLOTs, because
> > the bugs are filed for only latest SLOT, where as some packages require
> > stabilization in sync at both SLOTs
> >
> > Option 1:
> >
> > Either revert the whole policy, and never CC arches on unanswered bugs
> > when the package has a maintainer,
> > and let him do it when he finds the time himself, and if that doesn't
> > happen, wait until it's dropped to maintainer-needed@
> >
> > Option 2:
> >
> > Or, the person who is CCing the arches in 30 days timeout, needs to make
> > sure the bug covers all SLOT at the same time
> >
> >
> > The status quo no longer allows me to maintain stable version of
> > dev-libs/girara, app-text/zathura*, and the issue needs
> > to be addressed, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/502714 for what inspired
> > this mail
> >
> > - Samuli
> >
> 
> If you want to prevent packages from being "timed out", just leave a
> comment on the bug saying so. If you don't even have time to do that
> within a 30 day window, why are you the maintainer?
> 
> Another option would be to add some kind of notation to metadata.xml.
> 

The script CCing arches is at:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/arch-tools.git;a=blob;f=maintainer-timeout.py;h=ba8c322a4d7a834e274e0b7587c22f5d8ba8ce08;hb=HEAD

Not sure if anyone has enough knowledge to improve it covering option
two :/ (handling both slots)


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