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On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:29:09 -0400 |
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Wyatt Epp <wyatt.epp@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> |
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> What things in stable are undergoing bitrot? |
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Things that are too old; see 'imlate' from app-portage/gentoolkit-dev, |
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this can be handy to indicate stabilization candidates. You can try to |
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filter it for things that haven't been stabilized for more than a |
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month; alternatively, it's a fun data manipulation task to try to stat |
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and/or grep it from the Portage tree in one or another way... |
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> What manner of bitrot? |
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They might ... |
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1. ... contain stability bugs which may need fixing. |
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2. ... contain security bugs that later versions have fixed. |
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3. ... make it unable to file a bug upstream because it is old. |
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4. ... block libraries that should otherwise be punted. |
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5. ... no longer work nowadays; because some internet API changed, |
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because people run a new kernel version and because ... |
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6. ... and so on... |
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In other words, it's bad QA if you keep them around for way too long. |
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> On what architectures? |
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There is the impression that happens on all architectures; while |
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indeed, there are some minor architectures where this is a bigger |
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problem, some might just benefit having no stabilization. |
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Statistics would be nice here, because an indication is missing... |
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> Specifics or examples seem like they'll be important here because I |
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> think this is largely a matter of perception. |
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+1 |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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