Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-21 Thread Rich Freeman
2011/9/20 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org: The issue here is that if some part of the tree looses lots of its maintainers we as devs usually manage to shape it up enough for us in testing but nobody ever bothers to wait that 30 days and open stablereq. An issue your suggestion doesn't

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-20 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Hi guys, as I am now messing around libreo I am meeting a lot packages that none bothered to stablereq since 2009 or so, the versions in ~ are cleaner, more up to date, and possibly contain less bugs. The issue here is that if some part of the tree looses lots of its maintainers we as devs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-20 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 23:18 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Well it would be something like priority based queue with maximum 60 points value. Each update after the month in main tree would get 0 points for stabilisation, any-developer / maintainer would be able to add up to 40 points to any

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-20 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2011/9/20 Tony Chainsaw Vroon chain...@gentoo.org: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 23:18 +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Well it would be something like priority based queue with maximum 60 points value. Each update after the month in main tree would get 0 points for stabilisation, any-developer /

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] How do we handle stabilisations of not-exactly-maintained packages

2011-09-20 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 09/20/11 23:18, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: [snipped to bits] So, the issue is obvious, we have packages in testing that are in better shape than stable ones. I'm aware that some of my packages could use a stablereq, but since I don't run any stable machines at the moment it just never bothers me.