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Hello all, |
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The subject says it all: no more feature requests for portage (the package |
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manager) until further notice. This does not include submitting of patches |
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that add new features. "Further notice" will likely mean when the next major |
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version of portage becomes stable. |
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The reason behind this is that at approximately two thirds of bugs received |
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are feature requests and they are drowning at the real bugs. More importantly, |
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the critical bugs are becoming very hard to keep track of. This, at a time |
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when we are focusing on fixing major and critical bugs only so as to get the |
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next version completed quicker. |
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Most of the current feature requests will be available at the time when the |
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next version goes stable (and that which isn't should be relatively painless |
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to implement) so don't worry that things will go stagnant. |
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However, if you are worried, I'll be posting a weekly summary of portage bug |
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activity to gentoo-portage-dev@g.o from now on. If you'd like to join |
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the portage team or just feel like giving a quick hand, have a browse through |
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the bugs and see what fixes you can come up with. |
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Jason Stubbs |