Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-09-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On 1 September 2013 11:42, hasufell wrote: > On 09/01/2013 12:30 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> they dont search for recruits > > why not? > Will you please ready Thomas e-mail again as a whole? You only "extract" a single sentence and you redirect the other part of it to /dev/null. We (recruiters)

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-09-01 Thread hasufell
On 09/01/2013 12:30 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > they dont search for recruits why not?

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-09-01 Thread Thomas Sachau
Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina schrieb: > On 08/31/2013 03:57 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:45:00 +0200 >> Pacho Ramos wrote: > >>> El sáb, 31-08-2013 a las 12:37 -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina >>> escribió: [...] I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recruit is

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/31/2013 03:57 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:45:00 +0200 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > >> El sáb, 31-08-2013 a las 12:37 -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina >> escribió: [...] >>> I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recru

Re: How to find a mentor, WAS: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/31/2013 01:29 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:37:58 -0400 > "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > >> I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recruit is > > Yes. > >> someone who is very excited, very dedicated,

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:45:00 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El sáb, 31-08-2013 a las 12:37 -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina > escribió: [...] > > I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recruit is > > someone who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable > > to find a mentor.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 31-08-2013 a las 12:37 -0400, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina escribió: [...] > I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recruit is someone > who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable to find a > mentor. That is where I was for a long time, no one seemed to have the >

Re: How to find a mentor, WAS: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:29:30 +0200 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > someone who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable > > to find a mentor. That is where I was for a long time, no one > > seemed to have the time to mentor me. > > Your recruitment bug disagrees with you here in that yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:37:58 -0400 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recruit is > someone who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable to > find a mentor. That is where I was for

How to find a mentor, WAS: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 12:37:58 -0400 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > I know we are a little OT here but the fifth type of recruit is Yes. > someone who is very excited, very dedicated, and completely unable to > find a mentor. That is where I was for a long time, no one seemed to > have th

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-31 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/21/2013 05:13 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:32:35 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: > >> 21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: >>> Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing >>> are assuming that that doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-30 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 16:12 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > # Redmine > > =dev-ruby/builder-3.1.4 ~amd64 > > =dev-ruby/rails-3.2.13 ~amd64 > Ok, this one is ridiculous. The stable version of Rails is 2.3.18, and > 3.0 was released almost exactly three years ago. Every time rails-3.x > gets bum

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > That doesn't make it a special case here, imo; especially not, since > we are designing and implementing ebuilds that _build_ the kernel. > Whether it provides the sources, or build it; what does that matter? Yes and no. I don't think the

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 17:38, Wyatt Epp пишет: > Fundamentally, I see this as a problem of tooling. I think that no tool can cover all cases of checking that software WORKS. I mean - in generic, for all kinds of software. You can guarantee if it builds, if it follow some QA rules about CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/whateve

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > That's not to say that gentoo-sources shouldn't follow the regular > overall stabilization policies, but focusing on the kernel as the > impetus for adjusting the stabilization policy or pointing out what's > wrong with the policy as a wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:27:51 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 21/08/13 08:36 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > Given the kernel volume, I think even CVE's don't cover > > everything... > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 21/08/13 08:36 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Given the kernel volume, I think even CVE's don't cover > everything... > Kernel is really a special case here, imo -- emerge doesn't install kernels, it just provides their sources. End-users still ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Sergey Popov wrote: > > As i said earlier, we should recruit more people -> then problem will go > away. This is a point most of the people in this thread seem to be dancing around that's sort of problematic. You can talk about recruiting until you're blue in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 21-08-2013 a las 14:25 +0200, Tom Wijsman escribió: [...] > > 2) recruit more arch testers/arch team members; > > Same point as before, let's see if that will be enough. > Well, ago has being doing a great work getting more Arch Testers (at least for amd64), maybe some of them could give

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:22:28 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 21.08.2013 14:29, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:42:56 +0400 > > You do draw assumptions, because you don't take a look; please do: > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=assignee%3Asecurity%40gentoo.org%20C

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:16:53 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > >> And if you want to move stabilization checks to unqualified users, > >> then it is way to nowhere. > > > > No, because there would be much more users giving feedback. > > Feedback is good. But if it simple "works for me" without tests

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 14:29, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:42:56 +0400 > You do draw assumptions, because you don't take a look; please do: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=assignee%3Asecurity%40gentoo.org%20CC%3Akernel%40gentoo.org > > Sort by "Changed" such that the newest

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 14:36, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:54:51 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: > >> 21.08.2013 13:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: >>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:32:35 +0400 >>> Sergey Popov wrote: >>> 21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: > Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > "The latest distros seemed to be just a bunch of same old stuff. > Nothing new -- nothing innovative." ~ Larry's frustration. :( > > "Then Larry tried Gentoo Linux. He was just impressed. ... He > discovered lots of up-to-date packages ..." ~

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/21/2013 12:35 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 21 August 2013 04:12, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> [snip] >> Ok, this one is ridiculous. The stable version of Rails is 2.3.18, and >> 3.0 was released almost exactly three years ago. Every time rails-3.x >> gets bumped, I have to manually update the

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mié, 21-08-2013 a las 11:16 +0200, Tom Wijsman escribió: [...] > That's not what I am suggesting. > > It is not about bringing in new versions, but about getting rid of > OLD versions which LIKELY contain MORE security problems than you > imagine. Keeping them around for too long time isn't rea

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:50:22 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > Easing stabilization procedure makes stable more, well, unstable. It doesn't have to be easier; it just has to be done differently, in which way we can benefit from the users whom are actively testing it. Currently we use "no bugs were fil

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:54:51 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 21.08.2013 13:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:32:35 +0400 > > Sergey Popov wrote: > > > >> 21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: > >>> Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing > >>> are assuming

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:42:56 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > So it is definitely NOT 7 weeks Let me clarify this again, our last stable kernel is from 7 weeks ago. > 21.08.2013 13:28, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > That is 3.10.7, not 3.10; please look into how kernel releases work, > > minor releases are

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 13:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:32:35 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: > >> 21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: >>> Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing >>> are assuming that that doesn't work out. In which case, I wonder >>> what "by some o

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 13:17, Manuel Rüger пишет: > > Security team could maintain its own p.accept_keywords in profiles/ and > add testing keyworded ebuilds that fix security issues there. > Users who are interested skipping the stabilization process could link > it into their /etc/portage/p.accept_keywords

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 13:28, Tom Wijsman пишет: > That is 3.10.7, not 3.10; please look into how kernel releases work, > minor releases are merely a small number of "backported" "known" fixes. > > What you propose, waiting 30 days for a minor; simply doesn't work > when there are one to two minors a week, it

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:49:03 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 21.08.2013 12:39, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > "The latest distros seemed to be just a bunch of same old stuff. > > Nothing new -- nothing innovative." ~ Larry's frustration. :( > > > > "Then Larry tried Gentoo Linux. He was just impressed. ...

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:46:17 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 21.08.2013 12:25, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > > > 3.10 is not a shiny new version, it has been in the Portage tree > > for 7 weeks now (upstream release at 2013-06-30 22:13:42 (GMT)); > > so, that's almost double the time you are suggesting. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Manuel Rüger
On 08/21/2013 09:57 AM, Sergey Popov wrote: > 20.08.2013 23:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: >> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400 >> Wyatt Epp wrote: >>> What manner of bitrot? >> >> They might ... >> >> 2. ... contain security bugs that later versions have fixed. > > There should be security bug on our

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2013, 10:39:23 schrieb Tom Wijsman: > > "The latest distros seemed to be just a bunch of same old stuff. > Nothing new -- nothing innovative." ~ Larry's frustration. :( > > "Then Larry tried Gentoo Linux. He was just impressed. ... He > discovered lots of up-to-date package

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:21:41 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 21.08.2013 12:17, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:57:22 +0400 > > Sergey Popov wrote: > > > >> 20.08.2013 23:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: > >>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400 > >>> Wyatt Epp wrote: > What manner of bitro

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:32:35 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing > > are assuming that that doesn't work out. In which case, I wonder > > what "by some other ways" you would think of... > > Droppi

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 12:39, Tom Wijsman пишет: > "The latest distros seemed to be just a bunch of same old stuff. > Nothing new -- nothing innovative." ~ Larry's frustration. :( > > "Then Larry tried Gentoo Linux. He was just impressed. ... He > discovered lots of up-to-date packages ..." ~ Larry's happines

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 12:25, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > 3.10 is not a shiny new version, it has been in the Portage tree for 7 > weeks now (upstream release at 2013-06-30 22:13:42 (GMT)); so, that's > almost double the time you are suggesting. > Current stabilization target(3.10.7) was added to tree: *gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:42:57 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: > > > > Stable implies "not so often changing". If you really need newer > > packages on a system that has to be rock-solid, then keyword what > > you need and nothing else. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет: > Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing are > assuming that that doesn't work out. In which case, I wonder what "by > some other ways" you would think of... Dropping some keywords to unstable on minor arches. And about recruiting, i

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:07:16 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 21.08.2013 00:06, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:41:42 -0400 > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > >>> Let me dig up an example... > >>> > >>> Our last sys-kernel/gentoo-sources stabilization was 3 months ago: > >> > >> I don't rea

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 12:17, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:57:22 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: > >> 20.08.2013 23:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: >>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400 >>> Wyatt Epp wrote: What manner of bitrot? >>> >>> They might ... >>> >>> 2. ... contain security bugs that later

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:57:22 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 20.08.2013 23:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400 > > Wyatt Epp wrote: > >> What manner of bitrot? > > > > They might ... > > > > 2. ... contain security bugs that later versions have fixed. > > There should b

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:54:48 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > by some other ways(e.g., recruiting people). Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing are assuming that that doesn't work out. In which case, I wonder what "by some other ways" you would think of... -- With kind

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 00:00, Alan McKinnon пишет: > Hey, maybe you guys are doing your job in ~arch *too well*, to your own > detriment :-) Something to consider? ~arch should not break every day, yeah(we have hardmasked for that :-P), but it means that breakages are ALLOWED and it is NORMAL if they are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
21.08.2013 00:06, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:41:42 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> Let me dig up an example... >>> >>> Our last sys-kernel/gentoo-sources stabilization was 3 months ago: >> >> I don't really see a problem with stable package being all of 3 months >> old. Contra

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
20.08.2013 23:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400 > Wyatt Epp wrote: >> What manner of bitrot? > > They might ... > > 2. ... contain security bugs that later versions have fixed. There should be security bug on our bugzilla with quick stabilization on it and(probably) G

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
20.08.2013 23:48, Tom Wijsman пишет: > Yes, +1; last time this came up on chat, I asked whether it would be a > nice idea to have something between stable and ~, what you propose > sounds similar and might make sense. Though, on the other hand, doing > it this way we don't get the advantages that f

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-21 Thread Sergey Popov
20.08.2013 22:28, Ian Stakenvicius пишет: > I see a few issues with ~arch -> table migrations: > > #1 - things just sit in ~arch. The auto-stablereq script should help > with this one I think; we should give it some time to see if it works out. My personal opinion on this - there is some package

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/08/2013 03:54, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Its also precisely that mix and match that might cause instability due > to people not testing things. Case in point QEMU 1.6.0 just came out and > it went through a number of release candidates but no one ever saw that > it depends only on Python 2.4 bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread joshua saddler
On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > > My question is, how can we improve our stabilization procedures/policies > so we can convince people not to run production servers on ~arch and > keep the stable tree more up to date? do the Arch Linux thing…keep just one version of a packag

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 22:25, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:00:52 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> As a long time user and citizen of -user I can tell you what the >> general feeling of arch vs ~arch there is: > > Thanks for jumping into the discussion. > >> arch has plenty old stuff in i

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 21 August 2013 04:12, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > [snip] > Ok, this one is ridiculous. The stable version of Rails is 2.3.18, and > 3.0 was released almost exactly three years ago. Every time rails-3.x > gets bumped, I have to manually update the entire list above. I need > to do it on an x86 ser

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/20/13 11:19 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > During the last release of OpenRC, I learned that people *do* run > production servers on ~arch. I asked about it and was told that the > reason for this is bitrot in the stable tree. People frequently point to lack of manpower as reason for this, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: > > > > Stable implies "not so often changing". If you really need newer > packages on a > > system that has to be rock-solid, then keyword what you need and nothing > else. > > ++

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Stable implies "not so often changing". If you really need newer packages on a > system that has to be rock-solid, then keyword what you need and nothing else. ++ 30 days is too long? How can something new be stable? Stable doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > At least the numbers for the year sound like something we will want to > deal with; from there, we could try to keep half a year low. And after > a while, we might end up ensuring stabilization within 3 months. > > That's still three times mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:12:45PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote > On 08/20/2013 02:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > My question is, how can we improve our stabilization > > procedures/policies so we can convince people not to run production > > servers on ~arch and keep the stable tree more up to d

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:16:34 +0200 hasufell wrote: > On 08/20/2013 08:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > My question is, how can we improve our stabilization > > procedures/policies so we can convince people not to run production > > servers on ~arch and keep the stable tree more up to date? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 20. August 2013, 20:19:10 schrieb William Hubbs: > > I'm not really sure what the answer to this problem is, so I want to > know what the group thinks about how we can handle it. > > During the last release of OpenRC, I learned that people *do* run > production servers on ~arch. I as

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:00:52 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > As a long time user and citizen of -user I can tell you what the > general feeling of arch vs ~arch there is: Thanks for jumping into the discussion. > arch has plenty old stuff in it Yes, it keeps me from using it; I would have to unma

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread hasufell
On 08/20/2013 08:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > My question is, how can we improve our stabilization procedures/policies > so we can convince people not to run production servers on ~arch and > keep the stable tree more up to date? > Why convince them? They have been warned and it's their own p

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 08/20/2013 02:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > My question is, how can we improve our stabilization procedures/policies > so we can convince people not to run production servers on ~arch and > keep the stable tree more up to date? Just delete /etc/conf.d/net with an ~arch update every once in a wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:41:42 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > > Let me dig up an example... > > > > Our last sys-kernel/gentoo-sources stabilization was 3 months ago: > > I don't really see a problem with stable package being all of 3 months > old. Contrast that with youtube-dl which pull from ~arch

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 20/08/2013 21:24, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:19:10 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > >> All, >> >> I'm not really sure what the answer to this problem is, so I want to >> know what the group thinks about how we can handle it. >> >> During the last release of OpenRC, I learned tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:37:17 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:28:15 -0400 > Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > #1 - things just sit in ~arch. The auto-stablereq script should > > he

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 20:45:05 +0200 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Wyatt Epp > wrote: > > This right here seems strange to me. What things in stable are > > undergoing bitrot? What manner of bitrot? On what architectures? > > Yeah, something slightly more specific w

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400 Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: > What things in stable are undergoing bitrot? Things that are too old; see 'imlate' from app-portage/gentoolkit-dev, this can be handy to indicate stabilization candidates. You can try

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > While I don't, and asked it just because of the large amount; it > appears from some things lately, and not just OpenRC, that there is a > certain group that regards ~arch as some kind of new stable. People have been talking about that for yea

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:28:15 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > #1 - things just sit in ~arch. The auto-stablereq script should help > with this one I think; we should give it some time to see if it works > out. As an alternative, how about a new keywo

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:28:15 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > I see a few issues with ~arch -> table migrations: > #1 - things just sit in ~arch. The auto-stablereq script should help > with this one I think; we should give it some time to see if it

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:19:10 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I'm not really sure what the answer to this problem is, so I want to > know what the group thinks about how we can handle it. > > During the last release of OpenRC, I learned that people *do* run > production servers on ~arch.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Wyatt Epp wrote: > This right here seems strange to me. What things in stable are > undergoing bitrot? What manner of bitrot? On what architectures? Yeah, something slightly more specific would be useful here. I run my servers with stable with just a few packa

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/08/13 02:29 PM, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: >> >> During the last release of OpenRC, I learned that people *do* >> run production servers on ~arch. I asked about it and was told >> that the reaso

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > During the last release of OpenRC, I learned that people *do* run > production servers on ~arch. I asked about it and was told that the > reason for this is bitrot in the stable tree. > This right here seems strange to me. What things in s

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/08/13 02:19 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I'm not really sure what the answer to this problem is, so I want > to know what the group thinks about how we can handle it. > > During the last release of OpenRC, I learned that people *do* ru

[gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

2013-08-20 Thread William Hubbs
All, I'm not really sure what the answer to this problem is, so I want to know what the group thinks about how we can handle it. During the last release of OpenRC, I learned that people *do* run production servers on ~arch. I asked about it and was told that the reason for this is bitrot in the s