Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote:
> 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request?

I think any version bump request at any time is worthwhile.  The earlier
the better!
 
> 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early
> version bump requests?

No.  And I honestly don't understand other devs' reluctance for 0-day
bug requests.  Maybe I just don't have enough packages to be annoyed by
the bug-spam, or maybe I'm just too lazy to check upstream's sites all
day long, but I like to know that people are excited about the packages
I maintain.

Here's an interesting solution for those who find it annoying though:
Just file your own 0-day bump request in bugzilla. In theory some users
would find this and just CC themselves on it. Other users could be
shushed with the shame of the DUPLICATE. Everyone wins!

If someone had huge amounts of time, having a special bugzilla
interface to show current, pending, and requested versions of each
package (Sort of like an interactive packages.g.o?) may be a neat
project... maybe next year's GSOC?

P.S. Sorry about the lateness of the post - My ISP's comcastic smtp
server decided it wasn't going to work all weekend long.

-- 
Jim Ramsay
Gentoo Developer (rox/fluxbox/gkrellm)