Subject: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2008-01-03 13:02:39 GMT (1 year, 26 weeks, 20 hours and 9 minutes ago)
> If you have something you'd wish for us to chat about, maybe even > vote on, let us know ! Simply reply to this e-mail for the whole > Gentoo dev list to see. I would like to request the council discuss, though not necessarily take action or vote on, the idea of "slacker arches" and what ebuild maintainers are allowed/can do to a package versions that are languishing due to not getting stable keywords on those arches. I'm not trying to pick on any specific case, but I am hoping to find out if there's an allowable/acceptable period of time to which if an arch team is unable to stabilize a package to a newer version, for non-technical reasons, that it's okay to drop older unstable ebuilds. I realize this is open to lots of debate and dicussion, and I'm just trying to have a dialogue as to what is acceptable and hopefully get concensus as to some kind of guidance that could be added to the devmanual. Thanks, Caleb -- gentoo-dev <at> gentoo.org mailing list