Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:47:42 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:46:43 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > It allows undermanned arch teams to prioritize > > Oh, so you're still assuming an understaffed team somehow manages > to do some work in an appropriate time frame. It's get

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-17 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:46:43 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > It allows undermanned arch teams to prioritize Oh, so you're still assuming an understaffed team somehow manages to do some work in an appropriate time frame. It's getting old. Apparently "understaffed" isn't the right word since it keeps

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:50:41 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 06:58:47PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:41:03 +0100 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > > El dom, 16-02-2014 a las 00:37 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: > > > [...] > > > > > If we want a separa

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Sun, 2014-02-16 at 09:03 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Also, keeping the bugs assigned to package maintainers will still allow > > them to try to get that pending bugs fixed (or resolved in some way) as > > they will take care more about th

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 06:58:47PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:41:03 +0100 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > El dom, 16-02-2014 a las 00:37 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: > > [...] > > > > If we want a separate assignee for old stabilizations, what about > > > > a separate projec

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:46:23 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > But, I guess there are two major cases: > > - Versions that cannot be stabilized due they not working on that > > arch any longer > > It's probably a good idea to package.mask the affected versions on the > arch profile(s) (with refere

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:41:03 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 16-02-2014 a las 00:37 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: > [...] > > > If we want a separate assignee for old stabilizations, what about > > > a separate project that handles this, or maybe we could assign > > > the bugs to m-n or some

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:04:30 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:00:16 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > In this case the maintainer isn't needed on the bug anymore. > > You can't simply drop your old toys when you get bored with them. > You're leaving a mess in the tree and bl

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:38:20AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > Well, if they make no choice then the maintainer deletes the package. > That's what you want, right? The package would only stay around if > the minor arch asked them to. If they don't do that, then nobody can > complain. > > Howeve

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:48:57 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:23:27 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the > > > > actual maintenance of the ebuild to the arch team; such that it > > > > becomes the arch team's respon

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:53:57 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: In this case: > > > - Versions that are not stabilized because arch team doesn't have > > > the man power to do that. > > > > As above, package.mask would be a good intermediate solution, > > communicating the problem to the arch users for,

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:38:20 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Basically that one version of the package is now maintained by the > arch team. Yes, I know they won't maintain it. The only people that > impacts are those who use the arch, who are free to join the arch > team and help out. My sense is

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 16-02-2014 a las 15:46 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:18:42 +0100 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > I think that, if they delete del old version without breaking the tree > > (and, then, moving the package to testing for that arch), the > > situation is improved. But, i

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:18:42 +0100 Pacho Ramos wrote: > I think that, if they delete del old version without breaking the tree > (and, then, moving the package to testing for that arch), the > situation is improved. But, if the bug is assigned to the same team > that cannot handle its stabilizati

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:22:49 -0500 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Well, they can assign the burden to an understaffed team if the team >> wants them to. > > Achieving nothing in the process, even if the understaffed team > actually responds. I

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:22:49 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Well, they can assign the burden to an understaffed team if the team > wants them to. Achieving nothing in the process, even if the understaffed team actually responds. > Perhaps an intermediate solution is that when a STABLEREQ gets stal

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:03:31 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Well, that depends on your perspective. If they fix them by deleting > the old version, then whether they've made things better or worse is a > matter of philosophy. When you've cut the understaffed arch team out of the loop and removed t

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > The (slightly rhetorical) question was how an understaffed team could > be realistically expected to start maintaining ebuilds. Your entire > reply missed that point. > > The answer to the question is that you can't. A package maintainer > c

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 16-02-2014 a las 09:03 -0500, Rich Freeman escribió: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Also, keeping the bugs assigned to package maintainers will still allow > > them to try to get that pending bugs fixed (or resolved in some way) as > > they will take care more ab

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:00:16 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > In this case the maintainer isn't needed on the bug anymore. You can't simply drop your old toys when you get bored with them. You're leaving a mess in the tree and blaming others. You have achieved nothing else. > > Or when another arch a

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Also, keeping the bugs assigned to package maintainers will still allow > them to try to get that pending bugs fixed (or resolved in some way) as > they will take care more about that specific package status. If we get > that bugs assigned to a

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:23:27 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual > > > maintenance of the ebuild to the arch team; such that it becomes > > > the arch team's responsibility to deal with it, or rather don't > > > deal with it > > > > H

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 16-02-2014 a las 00:37 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: [...] > > If we want a separate assignee for old stabilizations, what about a > > separate project that handles this, or maybe we could assign the bugs > > to m-n or something until the arch teams catch up? > > Again, where is the man

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:05:56 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:37:03AM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > > > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? > > > Which one do you assign it t

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:37:03 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? > > Which one do you assign it to? > > Oh the fun we had in the past when bugs got assigned to one arch te

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? Which > one do you assign it to? The fastest gun in the west. > If we want a separate assignee for old stabilizations, what about a > separate project that handles this, or

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:18:32 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Many objected to removal since old with minor issues is better than > new that doesn't work at all on some archs, or so the argument goes. TL;DR: The opposite exists, I think we should draw a bar in the middle. So goes the counter-argumen

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 14:30:21 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > Assigning bugs so arch teams is cosmetic at best. > > s|so|to| > > > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual > > maintenance of the ebuild to t

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:37:03AM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? Which > > one do you assign it to? > > Oh the fun we had in the past when bugs got assigned to one ar

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team? Which > one do you assign it to? Oh the fun we had in the past when bugs got assigned to one arch team with a few others CC'd and no maintainer in sight (because maybe the m

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 02:30:21PM +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > Assigning bugs so arch teams is cosmetic at best. > > s|so|to| > > > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual > > maintenance of the ebuild

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:41:57AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 01:28:55 +0100 > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:59:58 +0100 > > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > > > And that can work without a problem if we have a mechanism > > > > in place to relieve maintainer

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > >> While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual >> maintenance of the ebuild to the arch team; such that it becomes the >> arch team's responsibility to deal wi

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 15-02-2014 a las 14:30 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: [...] > The only reasonable course of action is to start dropping stable > keywords for $ARCH, after a reasonable timeout. It gets tricky if this > involves removing many keywords on dependencies, but if that's what you > have to do to

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Assigning bugs so arch teams is cosmetic at best. s|so|to| > While it was not explained here, the idea can also move the actual > maintenance of the ebuild to the arch team; such that it becomes the > arch team's responsibility to deal w

Re: Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 01:28:55 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:59:58 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > And that can work without a problem if we have a mechanism > > > in place to relieve maintainers of those bugs. > > > > Such mechanism could be to assign those bug to the

Assigning keyword/stable bugs to arch teams (WAS: [gentoo-dev] dropping redundant stable keywords)

2014-02-14 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:59:58 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > And that can work without a problem if we have a mechanism > > in place to relieve maintainers of those bugs. > > Such mechanism could be to assign those bug to the arch team, this > idea came up at FOSDEM; it won't solve the lack of manp