On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:49:48 -0700 Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: > > Looking at the Portage tree, I see that some packages are kept ~x86 > > for long time without any bugs referenced in the changelog or > > Bugzilla. How are they being made stable (or where in the docs is the > > process described)? > They need to be in the tree for at least 30 days, no bugs, and if > someone files a stable request ebuild, then an arch tester will test it, > and then a dev will keyword it stable. > > Most stuff doesnt get marked stable mostly because there aren't any > stable requests. Stabilisation bug it not a requirement. Package should go to stable after 30 days + no bugs even without stabilization bug. I have an impresion that developers are _waiting_ for stabilization bugs which is wrong. I've raised a similar question few months ago. It's pretty long discussion on -user and -dev: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/166565/ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/40719/ Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
