Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:48:38AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:05:08 -0500 Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: Yes, making the newest versions never available because the old versions sink all your time really stops progress to a dead halt.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: You know what - this is pure and utter bullshit. Keeping it around for slower arches does NOT block progress. I have intimate knowledge with what ACTUALLY happens when people pull this bullshit - and that is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Sergey Popov
05.02.2014 09:41, Tom Wijsman пишет: On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:28:28 -0800 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: I've drafted and thrown away so many replies to Tom in this thread. What do you want to tell us about this thread? Thanks for putting up with it, but it's a huge waste of your

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:41:58 +0400 Sergey Popov pinkb...@gentoo.org wrote: Cause it seems that not everybody agrees with policy that we are trying to make. Because it's impossible to create a simple policy to solve complex problems. It's a waste of time and it's going to break more than you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:41:58 +0400 Sergey Popov pinkb...@gentoo.org wrote: Maybe we should change our sentence about dropping last stable keywords for slow arches ONLY if version, still marked stable for them is seriously broken? What does seriously broken mean? Maintainers will see that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:58:59 +0100 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 15:41:58 +0400 Sergey Popov pinkb...@gentoo.org wrote: Cause it seems that not everybody agrees with policy that we are trying to make. Because it's impossible to create a simple policy to solve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Against my better judgment... On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:55 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:15:47 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:48 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:52 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: You know what - this is pure and utter bullshit. Keeping it around for slower arches does NOT block progress. I have intimate knowledge with what ACTUALLY

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 13:58 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: Can we do something about our growing queue when fixing is insufficient? https://bugs.gentoo.org/chart.cgi?category=-All-datefrom=dateto=label0=All%20Openline0=320name=320subcategory=-All-action=wrap PS: As a bonus, here's a nice view of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Peter Stuge
I'm firmly with Steev and Matt in this thread as well as in at least a few others where Tom has participated intensely. Tom Wijsman wrote: Thanks for putting up with it, but it's a huge waste of your time. Why? Because you seem to have a completely different mindset than everybody else, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:55:59 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 13:58 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: Can we do something about our growing queue when fixing is insufficient?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:07:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Against my better judgment... On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:55 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:15:47 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:48 +0100, Tom

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:26:01 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: There is more to it than that. Normally discussions can be good, but when you try to talk to a brick wall, it's absolutely pointless. QA team's decisions require more than a flip of a dime; it takes a little more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:50:57 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:26:01 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: There is more to it than that. Normally discussions can be good, but when you try to talk to a brick wall, it's absolutely pointless. QA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/2014 04:48 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:07:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Against my better judgment... On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 05:55 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:15:47 -0600

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:05:08 -0500 Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: Yes, making the newest versions never available because the old versions sink all your time really stops progress to a dead halt. Your logic isn't flawed here, it's entirely missing. If version Y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/2014 07:48 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:05:08 -0500 Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: Yes, making the newest versions never available because the old versions sink all your time really stops progress

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:03:09 + Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:50:57 +0100 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:26:01 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: There is more to it than that. Normally

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/05/2014 07:48 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies That policy doesn't permit removal of keywords/ebuilds without following gentoo standard policy,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:00:41 -0500 Rick \Zero_Chaos\ Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: Can this be proven? Why are maintainers like WilliamH upset about this? Reference: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/90063 I've already voiced my concern on his bug:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:07:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Why is this pure and utter bullshit? Because I'm attempting to have a discussion with a brick wall. I hit that problem immediately in another sub-thread. Are we on to something here? Regards, jer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:50:07 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: So, I realize I'm repeating myself, but the purpose of the mailing list isn't to keep reposting the same arguments back and forth until everybody agrees. Post your argument once, and once it gets dull by all means appeal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 03:12:54 +0100 Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:07:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Why is this pure and utter bullshit? Because I'm attempting to have a discussion with a brick wall. I hit that problem immediately

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tyler Pohl
why cant there be a second repository for all old source, ebuilds, and patches and the stable and testing repository can be rolling like it already is. slower archs can then sync the old repository and the new one. On Feb 5, 2014 5:54 PM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 05 Feb 2014

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:04:56 -0800 Tyler Pohl tylerap...@gmail.com wrote: why cant there be a second repository for all old source, ebuilds, and patches and the stable and testing repository can be rolling like it already is. slower archs can then sync the old repository and the new one.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/2014 09:50 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:50:07 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: So, I realize I'm repeating myself, but the purpose of the mailing list isn't to keep reposting the same arguments back and forth

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Steven J. Long
Tom Wijsman wrote: Steven J. Long wrote: Closing those bugs as WONTFIX is more work, and in some cases the bugs would be justified, if the user is on the slow arch in question. They are less work; since it lets the slower arches move their work to bugs of important packages that need

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:03:20 + Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: They are less work; since it lets the slower arches move their work to bugs of important packages that need their attention, instead of bugs of non-important packages were the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 01:08 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: The -* keyword is special. It is used to indicate package versions which are not worth trying to test on unlisted archs. [1] You can keep rehashing about winning, but all it does is break policy. [1]:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:23:28 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 01:08 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: The -* keyword is special. It is used to indicate package versions which are not worth trying to test on unlisted archs. [1] You can keep rehashing about

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:07 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:23:28 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 01:08 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: The -* keyword is special. It is used to indicate package versions which are not worth trying to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Alright, well, I've tried my best, I give up. Instead of having something working we should just remove ebuilds of working packages. s/should/could/ s/ebuilds/stable keyword or last stable version/ It is at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:48 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Alright, well, I've tried my best, I give up. Instead of having something working we should just remove ebuilds of working packages. s/should/could/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:48 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Alright, well, I've tried my best, I give up. Instead of having something working

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:15:47 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 02:48 +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski st...@gentoo.org wrote: Alright, well, I've tried my best, I give up. Instead of having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 19:28:28 -0800 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: I've drafted and thrown away so many replies to Tom in this thread. What do you want to tell us about this thread? Thanks for putting up with it, but it's a huge waste of your time. Why? This discussion has a goal which