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 willi...@gentoo.org 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 pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El dom, 16-02-2014 a las 00:37 +0100, Jeroen Roovers escribió: [...]

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 tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 19:46:43 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:53:22 -0600 William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org 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

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 willi...@gentoo.org 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 willi...@gentoo.org wrote: The problem with this is, what if it is more than one arch team?

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 power

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 tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org 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

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 ri...@gentoo.org 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

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 ri...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:22:49 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org 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

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 ri...@gentoo.org 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.

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:23:27 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org 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

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. However, I

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:00:16 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org 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

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 pa...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:59:58 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:59:58 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: And that can work without a problem if we have a mechanism in place to

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 tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 willi...@gentoo.org 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

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 willi...@gentoo.org 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

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 j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:41:57 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org 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

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 ri...@gentoo.org 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

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 willi...@gentoo.org 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