On Tuesday 26 June 2007 01:07, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Here's the ideas that I have heard (and written) during the "Supporting > 15.000 packages" BoF which happened during DebConf7.
Good that there's discussion about this issue. > * Have a new release policy of not releasing orphaned packages in > stable. Interested maintainers would then have to adopt them or > let them be removed by the Q&A team. I do not agree with categorically excluding such packages. There are many orphaned packages that work just fine. When some important issue comes up and a QA upload squashes it, the package may be fine for years again. I therefore think that any exclusion or removal should be judged by actual observed lack of quality (e.g.: bugs, or obviously not useful anymore), not categorically by maintenance status. > * If we drop security support for a package, user of stable should be > notified... Once we've released a package in stable and as 'supported', we will support it until the end of that stable's life. I would not want to retract the supportedness of a package during stable's lifetime; our users should be able to use stable with the expectation that what is claimed to be supported will not be suddenly become unsupported while they've deployed it. thanks, Thijs
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