Daevid Vincent wrote:
But as I read this thread, it seems that in effect, I won't really be getting a more stable system, I'll just be getting an older, out of date one, as nobody is actively monitoring packages and then flagging them as stable. :(
The problem, like many other things, comes down simply to manpower.
I should stress, again, that popular, common applications and utilities are going to get marked stable on a regular basis. For the most part, its only the small, fringe programs that get lost in the cracks.
And getting some tools in place to display how long packages have been unstable is in the works. Still though, there is just so much work to be done in the first place, not many developers go looking for things to mark stable. It makes things a lot simpler if that offload is placed on the users instead, because that way 1) we don't focus manpower on stabilizing everything just because its been 30 days and 2) we stabilize stuff that people are using anyway, and want to get marked stable.
Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
