[Eug-lug] Re: [lug] Re: [linux] F+!*ing Gentoo...

[Donnie Berkholz]

On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 16:43 -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
> Any developer may check in ebuilds for any
> package, and if any one developer thinks it's stable, he sets the
> keyword. (That's my understanding, anyway.)  The minority platforms
> are left to catch up as best they can.  The result is that stuff gets
> released fast.  But the downside is tht bugs like the two that I found
> today are found by end users.  End users are all experienced hackers
> because non-hackers give up and go away.

On the right track, but really ...

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap4

"When a package version has proved stable for sufficient time and the
Gentoo maintainer of the package is confident that the upgrade will not
break a regular Gentoo user's machine, then it can be moved from ~ARCH
to ARCH. An indication of the package's stability would be no verified
or unresolved bug report for a month after the version's introduction.

It is up to the maintainer of the package to deem which versions are
stable or if development versions should be in package.mask or left in
~arch."

So, it's one person making the decision, but the choice is made using
data from more than just that developer's system.
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