Re: [PATCH] glep-0068: Add <straight-to-stable/> element to metadata.xml

On 5/9/26 2:33 AM, Arthur Zamarin wrote:
> Add a new <straight-to-stable/> element to metadata.xml, which indicates
> that stable keywords should be retained on version bumps (i.e. as
> a recommendation for developers, which may be overridden if
> stabilization is deemed inappropriate).
> 
> For example, various `*-bin` packages are meaningless to wait for
> stabilization, and should be stabilized immediately. This information
> is only available when looking at the package's history and detecting
> if the maintainer was bumping the version with stable keywords retained.
> 
> Various developer helper tools can be updated to detect this element
> and not destable the ebuild on version bumps. The developer is always
> free to override this recommendation if they feel that a wait period is
> necessary.
> 
> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/974436
> Signed-off-by: Arthur Zamarin <[email protected]>
> ---
>   glep-0068.rst | 13 ++++++++++---
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/glep-0068.rst b/glep-0068.rst
> index f822c6e..2d74c09 100644
> --- a/glep-0068.rst
> +++ b/glep-0068.rst
> @@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ Title: Package and category metadata
>   Author: Michał Górny <[email protected]>
>   Type: Standards Track
>   Status: Final
> -Version: 1.4
> +Version: 1.5
>   Created: 2016-03-14
> -Last-Modified: 2023-02-22
> -Post-History: 2016-03-16, 2018-02-20, 2022-05-22, 2022-10-07, 2023-02-22
> +Last-Modified: 2026-05-09
> +Post-History: 2016-03-16, 2018-02-20, 2022-05-22, 2022-10-07, 2023-02-22,
> +              2026-05-09
>   Content-Type: text/x-rst
>   Requires: 67
>   Replaces: 34, 46, 56
> @@ -162,6 +163,12 @@ element can contain, in any order:
>     after arch testing on one of them (i.e. if the package is known to be fully
>     arch-independent).
>   
> +- zero or more ``<straight-to-stable/>`` elements, possibly restricted
> +  to specific package versions (at most one for each version) whose presence
> +  indicates that stable keywords should be retained on version bumps (i.e. as
> +  a recommendation for developers, which may be overridden if stabilization is
> +  deemed inappropriate).
> +
>   - zero or more ``<use/>`` elements containing USE flag descriptions
>     in different languages (at most one for each language), as detailed
>     in `USE flag descriptions`_.


+1 I would use this on a package I currently maintain.

Thanks for the suggestion,
JayF