On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:43:11 -0500
Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I agree that the arch teams shouldn't be marking packages stable in
> advance of when the the maintainer thinks it's ready.  At the same
> time, it's the respective arch teams, as "owners" of their entire
> stable tree, who (in my opinion) should have the final "okay" on a
> package going stable, since they're the ones with experience of the
> entire stable tree.  Does that make a bit more sense?

For the most part, this makes sense,  However we do have times where a
particular arch team may need to stabilize a package sooner in the case
where earlier versions are broken.

This is not entirely uncommon to see packages that used to compile with
stable keywords no longer compile after a period of time.

Cheers,
-- 
Jason Wever
Gentoo/Sparc Team Co-Lead

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