On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 10:28:59 -0500 > William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Markos, to answer your question, there are folks on the team, and at >> least one user, using OpenRc from git without issues, so as far as I >> know there shouldn't be any breakage. > > A few team developers is not a large enough test base for an important > package that is to be installed and ran on _hundreds to thousands_ of > user systems; I think you could reword future warnings to invite people > to unmask and test this important package version bump, and then state > it will be unmasked in X days if nothing bad gets reported.
If a maintainer thinks that such a testing period is warranted they're welcome to call for it. However, I certainly wouldn't make it a requirement for putting a package into ~arch - even a system package. If hundreds to thousands of users are running ~arch, then that means that we have hundreds to thousands of users who don't mind their systems occasionally not booting after an upgrade. Besides, who does an emerge -u world without first checking to see what will be updated? If I see openrc on the list I certainly don't run the upgrade over ssh while I'm on vacation, and I always make a binary package with config before doing so. ~arch is for testing. That's what you sign up for if you run it. You ARE the volunteer. Rich
