On 03/10/2013 07:04 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 12:44:18 +0100 > Tomáš Chvátal <tomas.chva...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If I remember correctly the damn rule is to put it for 30 days into >> testing, and as you said there was no previous version on arm so users >> could've reported some issues, i agree that sometimes you have to >> ignore the rules to really fix stable, but was this such case for >> sure? > > I've done straight to stable keywording _many_ times. The rationale is > that with no previous version stable for a particular architecture, > there really are no users who could see _regressions_, hence waiting > the nominal thirty days is meaningless in this case. > > > jer >
another note: I was told a while back (I might still have it in irc logs), that 30 days is NOT a rule. It's common sense, but in the end the maintainer decides when to request stabilization, no one else. Blame people if they break something, not if they ignore soft policies.
