Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-20 Thread Christopher Head
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:59:06 -0500 Joshua Kinard wrote: > Once we complete the git migration, why not take a second look on > using a stable/testing/unstable (or -RELEASE/-STABLE/-CURRENT) system > used by Debian and FreeBSD? That should be entirely doable under a > git tree versus CVS. It woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-02-16, o godz. 10:37:12 William Hubbs napisał(a): > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 02:34:50PM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Hello > > > > Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording > > requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. > > > > Again, I would suggest

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Joshua Kinard wrote: > > Keep the core git tree constantly rolling forward, have a dedicated branch get > cut say, once a year (or less -- Debian is ~18mo?), another group of devs > works > on stabilizing that (and periodically cherrypicking from the master branc

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 02:34:50PM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording > requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. > > Again, I would suggest to either decrease radically the amount of stable > packages of some of that

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 02:34:50PM +0100, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording > requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. > > Again, I would suggest to either decrease radically the amount of stable > packages of some of that

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: >> They come from multiple places, for example I am now fighting with >> getting ipython finally stabilized after months of waiting because the >> deps hell in python packages (as package A needs package B, B needs C >> and D maintained by

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/16/15 11:05, Pacho Ramos wrote: El lun, 16-02-2015 a las 10:36 -0500, Anthony G. Basile escribió: On 02/16/15 08:34, Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. The powerpc team figured we

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 16-02-2015 a las 10:36 -0500, Anthony G. Basile escribió: > On 02/16/15 08:34, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Hello > > > > Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording > > requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. > > The powerpc team figured we'd deal with this by

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 02/16/2015 10:36, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 02/16/15 08:34, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> Hello >> >> Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording >> requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. > > The powerpc team figured we'd deal with this by being "lax" about > keyw

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 02/16/15 08:34, Pacho Ramos wrote: Hello Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. The powerpc team figured we'd deal with this by being "lax" about keywording/stabilization and catch problems in subsequent bug rep

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 16-02-2015 a las 10:09 -0500, Rich Freeman escribió: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > The current policy of maintainers dropping keywords after 90 days is > > simply not applied because it leads up to that maintainer needing to > > kill himself that keyword and

Re: [gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > The current policy of maintainers dropping keywords after 90 days is > simply not applied because it leads up to that maintainer needing to > kill himself that keyword and ALL the reverse deps keywords A published script might ease that, esp

[gentoo-dev] About reducing or even removing stable tree for some arches

2015-02-16 Thread Pacho Ramos
Hello Every day I am hitting tons of blockers stabilizations and keywording requests for alpha, sparc, ia64, ppc and ppc64. Again, I would suggest to either decrease radically the amount of stable packages of some of that arches or even make them testing only. For reducing their stable tree, my