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 let maintainers stabilize on all arch's > after 90 days, then they are allowed to remove all but the latest stable > version. This isn't good though because maintainers would be stabilizing > packages on arch's where they can't test. > > The stable tree is significantly behind because the arch teams are so > short staffed, and this prooposal is an attempt to fix that.
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.
