Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: >> On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: >> > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" >> > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be >> > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as >> > an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a >> > package? Is the 30-day policy the only policy? >> > >> > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile >> > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for >> > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the >> > arch manager would notice? >> > >> > >> You might be interested in those two things too >> >> >> http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2010/03/stabilizing-package-is-serious-thing.html >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org/msg36433.html >> > > In a nutshell, anyone can request stabilization of a package. If > something has been in the tree for at least 30 days without issues and > there isn't a stabilization request filed for it already, feel free > to file one. > > William > > In the __very__ old days wasn't there some measure of how many times it's been downloaded? 30 days and 5 downloads vs 30 days and 5000 downloads really might be different in terms of stability. Maybe there never was but it seemed like folks talked about back in about 2000 or so... - Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
Lie Ryan said: > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the > arch manager would notice? The general policy is here: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html#moving-from-~arch-to-arch Open a bug and let the package maintainer decide if that version should go stable yet, or not at all. We don't mark every version of each package stable since that would waste a lot of cycles all around. -- Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: > On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: > > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" > > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be > > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as > > an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a > > package? Is the 30-day policy the only policy? > > > > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile > > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for > > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the > > arch manager would notice? > > > > > You might be interested in those two things too > > > http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2010/03/stabilizing-package-is-serious-thing.html > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org/msg36433.html > In a nutshell, anyone can request stabilization of a package. If something has been in the tree for at least 30 days without issues and there isn't a stabilization request filed for it already, feel free to file one. William pgpjamEpoilf8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as > an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a > package? Is the 30-day policy the only policy? > > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the > arch manager would notice? > > You might be interested in those two things too http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2010/03/stabilizing-package-is-serious-thing.html http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-...@lists.gentoo.org/msg36433.html signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as > an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a > package? Is the 30-day policy the only policy? > > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the > arch manager would notice? > > The policy says "30 day bug free", but it is always appreciated to get feedback from users about packages which are stable on their systems. So please go ahead and file bugs. If the maintainer has any objections against a stabilization, you will be informed about that in the bug. justin
Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline
On Monday 01 March 2010 17:39:47 Lie Ryan wrote: > I've found a few people referencing to a "30-day stabilization policy" > which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be > considered for stabilization, but is there any document that serves as > an official guideline/checklist on how to consider to stabilize a > package? Is the 30-day policy the only policy? 30 days has always been the strong suggestion. Perhaps not always applied, but always there as far as I recall. > > I've been running several ~arch-ed packages that appears to be compile > and runs fine on my machine and would like to vote them for > stabilization. Is it enough to just open a bug issue and pray that the > arch manager would notice? Yes, just open a new bug in b.g.o. The bug wranglers will assign it to the appropriate team and you will get email notifications when something happens. This lets you check in on the bug every soon often to observe progress or perhaps bump if a long period of inactivity has passed. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
