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

Adam Vogt vogt.adam at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 22:42:13 EDT 2009


* On Wednesday, July 29 2009, 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?
>
>--
>Adam

I've pushed a patch that marks those 17 modules last modified in 2007:

Thu Sep  3 20:51:47 EDT 2009  Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com>
  * Mark modules last-modified in 2007 as stable


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