Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-19 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:31:57 -0800 Christopher Head wrote: > Right, of course things can become incompatible—but the distro handles > that by either leaving old enough version of e.g. libraries around > that the latest stable versions of their reverse dependencies don’t > break, or, in exceptiona

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-19 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:44:42 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > If I don’t, why do I care if the package is a year old? I lose none > > of my time to use the old version, since it does all I want; > > This is under the assumption that the old version has no further > implications, which is a false ass

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
William Hubbs schrieb: > When you say "drop keywords" do you mean: > > 1) revert the old version back to ~arch or > 2) remove the old version. > > As a maintainer, I would rather do 2, because I do not want to backport > fixes to the old version. > > William > With 1) users would still be usin

Re: Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy)

2014-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 19 January 2014 04:28:33 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 03:36 -0500, Mike Frysinger escribió: > > On Friday 17 January 2014 02:02:51 gro...@gentoo.org wrote: > > > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for > > > such packages (similar to what's do

Add a KEYWORD representing any arch (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy)

2014-01-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 03:36 -0500, Mike Frysinger escribió: > On Friday 17 January 2014 02:02:51 gro...@gentoo.org wrote: > > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such > > packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is > > ~noarch, it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 17 January 2014 02:02:51 gro...@gentoo.org wrote: > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such > packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is > ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for > stable. T

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:02:27PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-01-17, o godz. 14:02:51 > gro...@gentoo.org napisał(a): > > > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such > > packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is > > ~noa

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Manuel Rüger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/17/2014 06:08 PM, gro...@gentoo.org wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:31:54 +0100 Ulrich Mueller >> wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, grozin wrote: Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a spec

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:28:41 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:47:58 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > Maybe we can let the package managers only perceive it as keyworded > > or stable if all of its dependencies are keyworded or stable on the > > architecture that the user runs.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Friday 17 of January 2014 13:06:22 gro...@gentoo.org wrote: | dev-util/kdevelop-php-docs While of course it doesn't invalidate your entire idea, this particular example is a kdevelop plugin written in C++ that provides php API documentation integration. This tells however that decision to "au

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:47:58 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > Maybe we can let the package managers only perceive it as keyworded or > stable if all of its dependencies are keyworded or stable on the > architecture that the user runs. Then we can have repoman just ignore > checking dependencies' keyword

noarch packages, was Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread grozin
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, grozin wrote: Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread grozin
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:31:54 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, grozin wrote: Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is ~noarch, it i

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:31:54 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, grozin wrote: > > > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for > > such packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a > > package is ~noarch, it is automatically cons

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, grozin wrote: > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for > such packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a > package is ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all > arches. Similar for stable. The maintainer sho

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-17, o godz. 14:02:51 gro...@gentoo.org napisał(a): > Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such > packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is > ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arch for all arches. Similar for > s

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:02 PM, wrote: >> Maybe, a good solution is to introduce a special arch, "noarch", for such >> packages (similar to what's done in the rpm world). Then, if a package is >> ~noarch, it is automatically considered ~arc

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:02 PM, wrote: > Sorry for following up myself, > > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, gro...@gentoo.org wrote: >> >> OK, let's be conservative. Python and Perl scripts may break on some >> arches (I'd say it's a rare exception, perhaps 1%, but still). But what >> about >> >> dev-ja

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread grozin
Sorry for following up myself, On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, gro...@gentoo.org wrote: OK, let's be conservative. Python and Perl scripts may break on some arches (I'd say it's a rare exception, perhaps 1%, but still). But what about dev-java/java-sdk-docs dev-db/postgresql-docs sys-kernel/linux-docs de

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread grozin
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Sergey Popov wrote: 3. Also, another interesting question has come up in this thread, that of non-binary packages. Should we give maintainers the option of stabilizing them on all arch's themselves? 3. If code is interpreted rather then compiled, it does not matter that it i

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:20:37 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > It can not go to no result, unless we have no breakages in stable, > stable REMAINS stable. If it contains old, but working software - then > it is stable. An ebuild promoted to stable is because an arch team (or a privileged maintainer to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:28:04 -0800 Christopher Head wrote: > If I need or want a feature or bugfix which isn’t in the newer > version, I always have the choice to use ~. Yes. > If I don’t, why do I care if the package is a year old? I lose none > of my time to use the old version, since it does

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I wrote both "assigning" and "respecting" > > I reckon the cardinal rule is "avoid as much as possible having priority > set by someone who is not solving the problem". I think that comes close > in my words to what you are saying. Yes that's exactly what I mean. Thanks f

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/01/2014 20:26, Peter Stuge wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> "Respecting bug priority" feels like that corporate BS I have to put up >> with every day. > > Gentoo is incorporated so maybe that fits. ;) > > On a more serious note, please try to understand what I meant rather > than just what

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: > I get what you're saying, though there is still a cost to leaving the > bug open to years. In this case it means an old package stays in the > tree marked as stable. That either costs maintainers the effort to > keep it work, or they don't bother to keep in working in which

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:42:41PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > I certainly don't think the work needs to go away if the work is > > considered to be important. It's fine to have open bugs for years > > in the absence of a good solution. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > I certainly don't think the work needs to go away if the work is > considered to be important. It's fine to have open bugs for years > in the absence of a good solution. I get what you're saying, though there is still a cost to leaving the bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Alan McKinnon wrote: > "Respecting bug priority" feels like that corporate BS I have to put up > with every day. Gentoo is incorporated so maybe that fits. ;) On a more serious note, please try to understand what I meant rather than just what I wrote. I wrote both "assigning" and "respecting"; y

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Rich Freeman wrote: > >> As i said earlier, problem begins when we NEED to stabilize > >> something to prevent breakages and arch teams are slow. > > > > Isn't that simply a matter of assigning and respecting priority on > > bugs properly? > > Are you suggesting that we should forbid people from w

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/01/2014 19:56, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> Sergey Popov wrote: >>> As i said earlier, problem begins when we NEED to stabilize >>> something to prevent breakages and arch teams are slow. >> >> Isn't that simply a matter of assigning and respe

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Peter Stuge wrote: > Sergey Popov wrote: >> As i said earlier, problem begins when we NEED to stabilize >> something to prevent breakages and arch teams are slow. > > Isn't that simply a matter of assigning and respecting priority on > bugs properly? Are you sugg

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-16 Thread Peter Stuge
Sergey Popov wrote: > As i said earlier, problem begins when we NEED to stabilize > something to prevent breakages and arch teams are slow. Isn't that simply a matter of assigning and respecting priority on bugs properly? //Peter pgpNUTerDIRPI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Christopher Head
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:46:04 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > s/month/year/ > > Do you feel the same way then? I have heard of stabilizations taking > this long before. I just had to try to pick something reasonable for > the discussion. > > I suppose a compromise would be, instead of removing the

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 22:33, Thomas Sachau пишет: > William Hubbs schrieb: > >> Thoughts? >> >> William >> >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/487332 >> [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt >> > > I see 2 cases here: > > 1. specific or all arch teams allow maintainers to st

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 21:04, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:40:20 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: > >> As i said earlier for similar proposals - the one option that i see >> here to make all things going better - to recruit more people in arch >> teams/arch testers. Other options lead us to nowhere

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 19:30, William Hubbs пишет: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:30:39PM +0400, Sergey Popov wrote: >> 15.01.2014 01:37, William Hubbs пишет: >>> All, >>> >>> It is becoming more and more obvious that we do not have enough manpower >>> on the arch teams, even some of the ones we consider major a

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 02:32 +, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > In my testing, one known issue was that git on uclibc did (and still > > doesn't) work properly starting with git 1.8 - so I noted in the bug > > that this was the case, and to NOT stable it for arm. Unfortunately, > > someone else on

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 06:58:27PM -0600, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > We actually ran into something along this issue with git. > > Now, arm is an interesting keyword, because for arm, when something > needs to be stabled, we have to test armv4, armv5, armv6, armv6 > hardfloat, armv7, armv7 hardfl

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 13:07 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > When you say "drop keywords" do you mean: > > 1) revert the old version back to ~arch or > 2) remove the old version. > > As a maintainer, I would rather do 2, because I do not want to backport > fixes to the old version. > > William >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Ruud Koolen
On Tuesday 14 January 2014 22:37:19 William Hubbs wrote: > I think we need a global policy that either helps keep the stable tree > up to date or reverts an architecture to ~ over time if the arch team > can't keep up. As a compromise solution for minor archs, it would be nice if there were a por

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 07:33:45PM +0100, Thomas Sachau wrote: > William Hubbs schrieb: > > > Thoughts? > > > > William > > > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/487332 > > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt > > > > I see 2 cases here: > > 1. specific or all

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Thomas Sachau
William Hubbs schrieb: > Thoughts? > > William > > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/487332 > [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20130917-summary.txt > I see 2 cases here: 1. specific or all arch teams allow maintainers to stabilize packages on their own, when they follow the arc

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Matthew Thode
On 01/15/2014 10:57 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:33:28 +0400 > Sergey Popov wrote: > >> 15.01.2014 06:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: >>> And for that occasional mis-guess, *boohoo*, the user can just file >>> a bug; which ironically even happens occasionally for stable >>> packages. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:40:20 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > As i said earlier for similar proposals - the one option that i see > here to make all things going better - to recruit more people in arch > teams/arch testers. Other options lead us to nowhere, when stable > will be eliminated or transfor

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:33:28 +0400 Sergey Popov wrote: > 15.01.2014 06:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: > > And for that occasional mis-guess, *boohoo*, the user can just file > > a bug; which ironically even happens occasionally for stable > > packages. > > If we blindly approves increasing of such mis-g

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:30:39PM +0400, Sergey Popov wrote: > 15.01.2014 01:37, William Hubbs пишет: > > All, > > > > It is becoming more and more obvious that we do not have enough manpower > > on the arch teams, even some of the ones we consider major arch's, to > > keep up with stabilization

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > 2) has to add package.accept_keywords entry for the package. Which > means turning a pure stable system into an unsupported mixed-keyword > system. As opposed to an unsupported pure stable system or an unsupported pure unstable system? I d

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 03:49, Tom Wijsman пишет: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600 > William Hubbs wrote: > >> Thoughts? > > In this situation, I see three opposite ends of choices: > > 1. "We do nothing"; which means that as a side effect either less > often a version would be picked for stabilizat

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 06:42, Tom Wijsman пишет: > And for that occasional mis-guess, *boohoo*, the user can just file a > bug; which ironically even happens occasionally for stable packages. If we blindly approves increasing of such mis-guesses, then our QA level in arch teams will down below the apropriate

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 01:37, William Hubbs пишет: > All, > > It is becoming more and more obvious that we do not have enough manpower > on the arch teams, even some of the ones we consider major arch's, to > keep up with stabilization requests. For example, there is this bug [1], > which is blocking the stab

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 03:11, William Hubbs пишет: > The status quo is not good, because we are forced to keep old, and > potentially buggy, versions of software around longer than necessary. But both of suggested solutions will break the whole idea of stabling. Dropping packages to unstable on regular basis

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
15.01.2014 01:37, William Hubbs пишет: > I want comments wrt two ideas: > > 1. I think maintainers should be able to stabilize their packages on arch's > they have access to. I think this is allowed by some arch teams, but I > think it would be good to formalize it. > > 2. I would like to see the

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-01-14, o godz. 15:37:19 William Hubbs napisał(a): > I want comments wrt two ideas: > > 1. I think maintainers should be able to stabilize their packages on arch's > they have access to. I think this is allowed by some arch teams, but I > think it would be good to formalize it. I think

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 22:49 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > > Also, there is a substantial number of packages which contain only python > > code (or perl, ruby), or only LaTeX classes, or only documentation. It > > makes no sense to test them on each arch separately. I think maintainers > > should

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-15 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:49 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >> Also, there is a substantial number of packages which contain only python >> code (or perl, ruby), or only LaTeX classes, or only documentation. It >> makes no sense to test them on each arch separately. I think maintainers >> should be allo

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:49:48PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > > Also, there is a substantial number of packages which contain only python > > code (or perl, ruby), or only LaTeX classes, or only documentation. It > > makes no sense to test them on each arch separately. I think maintainers > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:48:53AM +0700, gro...@gentoo.org wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, William Hubbs wrote: > > 1. I think maintainers should be able to stabilize their packages on arch's > > they have access to. I think this is allowed by some arch teams, but I > > think it would be good to for

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread grozin
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, William Hubbs wrote: 1. I think maintainers should be able to stabilize their packages on arch's they have access to. I think this is allowed by some arch teams, but I think it would be good to formalize it. +1 Also, there is a substantial number of packages which contain o

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:40:24 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I've written too many emails today, I hereby give up =) At least you've let your voice be heard against this option. :) It sets the ground for discussion for people that agree with you. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 09:21:51PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 09:09 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > After the package has been sitting in ~arch for 90 days with an open > > stable request with no blockers that the arch team has not taken any > > action on. We are not talking a

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:09:34 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > After the package has been sitting in ~arch for 90 days with an open > stable request with no blockers that the arch team has not taken any > action on. We are not talking about randomly yanking package versions, > just doing something whe

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 09:34 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >> Strictly from a user's perspective. I don't, unless I do, in which >> case I know that I do, and I could just keyword the thing if I wanted >> to. > > This is the exact same argument as in your other mail, which is your > point of view; this is unde

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:21:51 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 09:09 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > After the package has been sitting in ~arch for 90 days with an open > > stable request with no blockers that the arch team has not taken any > > action on. We are not talking about

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:36:10 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 08:23 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:11:24 -0500 > > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > >> On 01/14/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >>> > >>> This is under the assumption that the user knows of the stat

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 09:09 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > After the package has been sitting in ~arch for 90 days with an open > stable request with no blockers that the arch team has not taken any > action on. We are not talking about randomly yanking package versions, > just doing something when arch tea

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 08:36:10PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 08:23 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:11:24 -0500 > > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > >> On 01/14/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >>> > >>> This is under the assumption that the user knows of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 08:23 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:11:24 -0500 > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 01/14/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >>> >>> This is under the assumption that the user knows of the state of the >>> stabilization worsening; if the user is unaware of that change

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:46:06 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > If you want to say @system, you have to include all rdepends of > virtuals in @system and all packages that are dependencies of any > packages in @system, at least. > > Keeping track of that will be difficult at best. Trying to depclean

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:11:24 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > This is under the assumption that the user knows of the state of the > > stabilization worsening; if the user is unaware of that change, the > > "could have done anyway" might be less

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:50:30 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 07:13 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >> > >> For users, both options are worse than the status quo. > > > > When you do nothing then things are bound to get worse, under the > > assumption that manpower doesn't change as well a

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > This is under the assumption that the user knows of the state of the > stabilization worsening; if the user is unaware of that change, the > "could have done anyway" might be less common and first something bad > would need to happen before they reali

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:47:50 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 06:11 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > >> > >> For users, both options are worse than the status quo. > > > > The first option would start reverting things back to ~ and users > > would have to unmask them. > > > > The second

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 07:13 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: >> >> For users, both options are worse than the status quo. > > When you do nothing then things are bound to get worse, under the > assumption that manpower doesn't change as well as the assumption that > the queue fills faster than stabilization bugs ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 06:11 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >> >> For users, both options are worse than the status quo. > > The first option would start reverting things back to ~ and users would > have to unmask them. > > The second option would introduce new things to stable which may not be > stable due to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:38:08AM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:06:07 +0100 > "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2014, 00:49:28 schrieb Tom Wijsman: > > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600 > > > > > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > > Thoughts? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:17:35 -0500 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > On 01/14/2014 07:06 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2014, 00:49:28 schrieb Tom Wijsman: > >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600 > >> > >> William Hubbs wrote: > >>> Thoughts? > >> In this situation, I see t

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:06:07 +0100 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2014, 00:49:28 schrieb Tom Wijsman: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600 > > > > William Hubbs wrote: > > > Thoughts? > > > > In this situation, I see three opposite ends of choices: > > > > Here's ano

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:22:51 -0500 Jeff Horelick wrote: > I think the simplest short-term solution might be to add teams that > are looking for ArchTesters to the Staffing Needs page on the wiki Adding a lot of them could make it noisy, I think we could just make one entry to link to a page that

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 01/14/2014 07:06 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2014, 00:49:28 schrieb Tom Wijsman: On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: Thoughts? In this situation, I see three opposite ends of choices: Here's another idea: 4. Friendly ask the arch teams / ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:43:57 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > It's attempting to fix a headache with a bullet. The arch teams are > lagging behind, you're annoyed, I get it. Give 'em hell. But don't > break stable to make a point. > > For users, both options are worse than the status quo. When yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:57:30 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > 2. I would like to see the policy below applied to all arch's [2]. > > [ ] Yup > [X] Nope For which reason? I could do [✓] Yup [X] Nope 'cause a stable version that's no longer

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 15. Januar 2014, 00:49:28 schrieb Tom Wijsman: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600 > > William Hubbs wrote: > > Thoughts? > > In this situation, I see three opposite ends of choices: > Here's another idea: 4. Friendly ask the arch teams / make a policy that @system packages com

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:37:19 -0600 William Hubbs wrote: > Thoughts? In this situation, I see three opposite ends of choices: 1. "We do nothing"; which means that as a side effect either less often a version would be picked for stabilization or stabilizations will just take longer due to a

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Jeff Horelick
On 14 January 2014 18:11, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:43:57PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 01/14/2014 05:33 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > >> On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > >>> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:43:57PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 05:33 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > >>> > >>> 2. I would like to see the policy below applied to all

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 05:33 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote: >>> >>> 2. I would like to see the policy below applied to all arch's [2]. >> >> [ ] Yup >> [X] Nope > > The reverse of this would be to

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 04:57:30PM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > 2. I would like to see the policy below applied to all arch's [2]. > > [ ] Yup > [X] Nope The reverse of this would be to let maintainers stabilize on all arch's after 90 days

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 01/14/2014 04:37 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > 2. I would like to see the policy below applied to all arch's [2]. [ ] Yup [X] Nope