Fwd: [xmonad] Unmarking modules 'Unstable' in contrib

[Braden Shepherdson]

Resending to the list, sorry Brent for the duplicate.

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From: Braden Shepherdson <braden.shepherdson at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [xmonad] Unmarking modules 'Unstable' in contrib
To: Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>


Even when our modules do change, they almost always change in a
backward-compatible way, since we try to avoid breaking configs.

This sounds fine to me.

Braden Shepherdson
shepheb


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:10:52PM -0400, Adam Vogt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Most (152/159) modules are marked as unstable in contrib. A good number
> of
> > these 'unstable' modules have not been modified since a number of
> releases.
> >
> > Here's a rough total number of modules with a last-modified date (per
> year):
> >
> > > (for x in `find .`; do; (darcs changes $x | tail -n 2 | head -n 1);
> done) > lastmod
> > > for x in {2007,2008,2009}; do; grep $x lastmod | wc -l; done
> > 64
> > 43
> > 17
> >
> > I wouldn't trust those numbers, since the total falls short of 159, but
> the
> > point still stands: many so-called unstable modules have not changed in a
> > long time, which could make it difficult for users to avoid modules that
> > may actually change.
> >
> > Does anybody mind if I change the oldest modules (unchanged since 1.5
> > years) to be stable?
>
> Sounds good to me.  I think most of the 'unstable' designations are
> because of cargo-culting someone else's module comments.  That and the
> fact that by definition you would only change the stability
> designation when you are not changing anything.  No one ever thinks
> "gee, it's been 6 months since I even thought about that module,
> better go back and change it to 'stable'". =)
>
> -Brent
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