On Thu, 03 May 2007 12:15:45 +0200 "José Luis Rivero (yoswink)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ehm, IMHO call it discriminate is a big hard. Are the gnome-2.18 or > beryl users discriminated or they should be using something different > to Gentoo? They only thing people have to do is use some ~arch branch > packages, which isn't too difficult (in Gentoo).
No no no. In my example we can only use one version of the game with the upstream servers. There is only 1 upstream server, we have to use it. So if it supports 6 archs and some of the arch teams take a few months to mark it stable then the chances are it will be out of date anyway and the "slacker arches" will never have a stable keyword. So remove the onus on slacker arches making games stable I just don't bother with the stable keyword for network games ever. Gnome-2.18 on the other hand is a desktop product with zero upstream interaction except with programs that have clearly defined protocols and are normally backwards compatible. Like say HTTP > > This is how I see it: > > Problem with keywording straight to stable is that arch teams are > very zealous about our stable branch. We put a lot of time trying > things to not fail in stable, and if an app is broken, we prefer to > not force the users to compile and install another broken (or unknown > to be broken) version and work to fix the current stable (patches or > bumping) together with the maintainer. Right, but if stable client version != stable usptream server version it cannot be used anyway, making the stable keyword here a bit of a joke. > But if you send things, that you can't try, to stable, the qa baby > jesus will cry if it fails, because nobody has taken care of even > compile it in the arch :) Well, that's up to the arch teams I guess. Lots of things fail randomly on g/fbsd because of a patch added to fix a linux bug. Maybe when we g/fbsd gets a stable branch then we'll come down on the linux developers like a ton of bricks :) Thanks Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
