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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 07:15 -0500, Brandon Low wrote: |
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> Remember when committing a big bug into the tree just wasn't that big of |
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> a deal, because it'd get fixed soon, and the people who updated often |
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> enough to care in the meantime would just laugh about it with you in |
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> #gentoo? |
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This is definitely something that we've lost. Major bugs sit waiting |
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for the maintainer to fix them, when really, anyone who spots the bug |
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should be free to fix it, so long as they inform the maintainer. Yes, |
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commenting to the effect of "I fixed this by doing $blah" on a bug |
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report *is* informing the maintainer. |
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> What if the problem is too many devs instead of too few? Slackware |
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> Linux is a comparatively simple to maintain distribution, but ONE person |
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> does it. How many devs are on Gentoo now? 200? more? A close knit |
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> group of college students and bored professionals should be able to |
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> maintain this distribution. |
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I really want to see another checking of the CVS logs (without names, of |
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course) to see just how much work how many developers do. I'd be |
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interested to know if it really is a very few doing most of the work. I |
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would venture to say that it is, and CIA stats seem to agree. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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