-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/13 06:07 AM, viv...@gmail.com wrote: > On 05/22/13 11:43, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 22/05/2013 19:22, viv...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 05/21/13 23:38, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>>> Am Dienstag, 21. Mai 2013, 15:38:44 schrieb Thomas Sachau: >>>>> And if a maintainer is not responding within 30 days, you >>>>> can ping him or, without a response, try to get a different >>>>> maintainer. Just assuming that a stable request is ok >>>>> without a maintainer response is really not a good idea. >>>> If none of the listed maintainers responds to a bug in 30 >>>> days in any way, the package is effectively unmaintained. >>>> >>> And thus its risky to mark it stable. >>> >>> >> That's why we have arch teams in the first place, to test >> beforehand. >> >> > The risky part is about the after, not the before, to avoid the > risks arch teams should keep the package working *after* it has > stabilized. Seem to be a good case for those things that need to be > evaluated case by case and could not be written in stone. >
Unless it's officially maintainer-needed, a package shouldn't be in ~arch when it's unmaintained, either. If an AT passes a package from ~arch to stable, it's no more likely to break things there than it is in ~arch. Plus, it's important to consider the zero-bugs case here -- if all bugs in the ~arch package are fixed, AND the ATs give it a go, then the likliness of harm in stable is pretty minimal. I'd say less so than the end-users keywording the package. Now, one big thing I do worry about with this whole process, is that it's going to significantly increase the workload on ATs. And if it does that, what's the likliness of things getting a 'pass' when they shouldn't? *that* part I worry about more, when the maintainer hasn't manually cleared a package for stabilization. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlGcweYACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDGmAD/QtIKe/J5Xg3TjthITn1eTLA4 NfSMrrF6cyXfOdjtmoABAKauw9JDDX5JjUERL2K8At88VjWfeeST45qZ9HifDanv =qB7D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
