Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:16:43 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:10:23 +0100 > Tom Wijsman wrote: > > As detailed before, -* has a different meaning defined by policy; if > > we want to see that changed it should be brought up for a vote, > > otherwise its usage in discussions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:10:23 +0100 Tom Wijsman wrote: > As detailed before, -* has a different meaning defined by policy; if > we want to see that changed it should be brought up for a vote, > otherwise its usage in discussions like these seems to suggest to > break an existing policy. So, I read

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:31:28 + "Steven J. Long" wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > > > > > Much better for the arch in question to field the bug, than > > > > > tell the user there is no problem, and we don't care. That > >

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-18 Thread Steven J. Long
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 "Steven J. Long" wrote: > > > > > Much better for the arch in question to field the bug, than tell > > > > the user there is no problem, and we don't care. That way you can > > > > get the user involved in stabilisation and AT via that

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-06 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014 12:26:08 -0600 as excerpted: > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.dgi?id=487332 s/dgi/cgi/ Try this one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487332 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-06 Thread Duncan
Tom Wijsman posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:10:53 +0100 as excerpted: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:07:48 + (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> Tom Wijsman posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:58:22 +0100 as excerpted: >> >> > Can we do something about our growing queue when fixing is >> > in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-06 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:07:48 + (UTC) Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Tom Wijsman posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:58:22 +0100 as excerpted: > > > Can we do something about our growing queue when fixing is > > insufficient? > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/chart.cgi?category=-All-&datefrom=

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Duncan
Tom Wijsman posted on Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:53:24 +0100 as excerpted: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 03:12:54 +0100 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > >> On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:07:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski >> wrote: >> >>> I'm attempting to have a discussion with a brick wall. >> >> I hit that problem immediately

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Duncan
Steev Klimaszewski posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:55:59 -0600 as excerpted: > There is far more to stabilizing than just closing the bugs. > > I've been working for over 2 months now on the GNOME stabilization on > ARM. There has been a lot involved, including (but not limited to) > rebuilding ke

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-05 Thread Duncan
Tom Wijsman posted on Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:58:22 +0100 as excerpted: > Can we do something about our growing queue when fixing is insufficient? > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/chart.cgi?category=-All-&datefrom=&dateto=&label0=All%20Open&line0=320&name=320&subcategory=-All-&action=wrap > > PS: As a bo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-03 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 06:25:24 + "Steven J. Long" wrote: > Closing those bugs as WONTFIX is more work, and in some cases the bugs > would be justified, if the user is on the slow arch in question. They are less work; since it lets the slower arches move their work to bugs of important packages

[gentoo-dev] Re: dropping redundant stable keywords

2014-02-02 Thread Steven J. Long
Rich Freeman wrote: > Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > "Paweł Hajdan" wrote: > > > >> Why not allow maintainers to drop redundant stable and even ~arch > >> keywords from their packages? > > > > This is standard practice already. > > If there is still pain then maybe we need to re-communicate this, or >