Re: Fixed release dates are hurting quality
Andrey Rahmatullin, le dim. 07 févr. 2021 19:41:01 +0500, a ecrit:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 02:20:28PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > the packages being untouched for a long time in some cases meaning there is
> > > no guarantee for quality.
> >
> > Sure, but if there is no serious issue left with the package, we can as
> > well ship it.
> Strictly speaking, there is a big logical error here.
> If a package doesn't have RC bugs that doesn't mean it's fit for a
> stable release, doesn't have serious issues, or even is usable.
If a package has serious issues or is unusable, that makes it an RC bug,
and then the package will get removed, as it shall.
Of course, if nobody filed such an RC bug, the package gets shipped in a
broken state. But it's perhaps better to just ship the package and let
people report in the case it is broken, rather than not ship it (despite
it is usable and has no serious issue ; no upload in a decade does *not*
necessarily mean that it has bitrotted), and then people not even notice
that the package isn't shipped any more. I do have some packages on my
system which I do use, and which I just happened to notice that they are
not installable any more, because they got removed at some point.
Samuel
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