On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:22 PM Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Let's do this the other way around and be react based on facts and not > speculations. > Let's change the policy for a year for selected packages as I > outlined, monitor bugs and after a year see response times, affected > users and if downstream patches are accumulated. Then we can decide if > we need to patch upstream packages.
Obviously up to QA/Council, but I think this sounds like a practical approach. No need to "change the policy" so much as approve a temporary exception, perhaps for a defined period of time. -- Rich
