I'd like to add a few words from the users perspective:

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> 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request?

I hope developers are not annoyed - well, sometimes the words chosen are 
maybe a bit too offensive.

I like these bump requests. I add myself as a CC and wait for some email 
in my inbox saying "it's in the tree" like most devs like to express it.
Unfortunatly, i still have to wait half on hour, until the ebuild is 
available in the mirrors.


Here's my little theory why there are these 0-day bump requests:

Gentoo Maintainers seem to be very different. There are packages (opera 
for example) where we're offered the latest of the latest (even betas 
and pre-releases and stuff), and new versions are in portage before 
you've read the news on your favourite news-site.
And on the other hand, there are packages like filezilla (to just name 
an example) where it took ages to get a new version. In addition, 
filezilla is one of the softwares that shouts at you: "there is a new 
version of me available. get it now!"
And on the third hand (damn, humans only have two) there are important 
releases like pidgin 2.4.3 which has fixed the ICQ login issue. You saw 
the bump-request coming, didn't you?

> 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early
> version bump requests?
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Oh please don't discourage bump-requests, even if they are 0-day. I like 
them because I CC to them.


Regards,
   Sven

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