On 07/04/14 01:57, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 04/02/2014 02:22 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > 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. > > > I've long been a proponent of freeform notes in the metadata.
Like you said, doesn't suit this case. > I think > leaving a note in there is very helpful for developers, however, in this > case unless the note is standardized and the auto-stable script is > updated I fear this won't help anyone. > I agree, this is the best solution, something like <automaticstable>no</automaticstable> that can then be parsed by whatever scripts. I could work with that, and to ease that, I believe it should be part of the default metadata.xml template in a way of 'yes', so it can then be easily changed to 'no' I'd just add it to dev-libs/girara, app-text/zathura, app-text/zathura-meta, and everything it deps on, the plugins. Also, to every package that has <herd>xfce</herd> And to every package I maintain that's important for core system, say, eg. libffi (albeit I've tried to push that particular package to toolchain@ for a while now, but ChangeLog speaks for itself) - Samuli
