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On Friday 09 July 2004 20:21, Caleb Tennis wrote: |
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> Perhaps, but the kde herd = 3 people, and the other two are hesitant to |
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> touch the core kde stuff as they still feel relatively "new" and don't |
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> want to break things for users. |
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Well I do run stable kde all the time and I run the latest stable version. |
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Once in the good old kde 2 times I even stayed with CVS HEAD for quite some |
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time, updating every few weeks or so because I wanted all those IMAP |
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features. That might be a 'yes' to your greed hypothesis :) |
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> but it's a matter of manually editing the ebuild, editing a changelog, |
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> scanning for problems, and submitting the changes. This process takes a few |
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> minutes. Multiply that over the # of packages in kde-base, and you get the |
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> idea. |
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Well I don't see a way to help to speed this up short of having a script to |
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mass ~x86->x86 and put a new changelog entry for it for a list of packages. |
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> AFAIK all of the Gentoo developers are doing this as volunteers. If |
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> someone's making money on it, it's news to me. |
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Oh well then I miunderstood some other posting in this thread. |
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> I think you'll find that I get kde versions in portage within 24 hours of |
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> them being released - usually after significant testing on my home machine. |
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As said there was no single time there was no ebuild in ~x86. |
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> Look in the desktop forums at people "asking" me where the KDE ebuilds were |
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> for 3.3.0_beta1 like 30 minutes after it was released to the public. |
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Those are morons. Have a userbase sitting in the USA and the maintainer in |
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europe or vice versa and people will complain about this. Don't listen :) |
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> Yes we need more developers, but most people have that "I just don't have |
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> time excuse". |
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Uh oh. *duck* |
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> I would venture to say that is acceptable. What's more important is |
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> someone who's willing to stick around for a good period of time. This is |
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> hard stuff, and it requires learning and dedication. |
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I would be willing to stick around but I can't promise how much time I could |
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give. Exams are coming near, we have a software project running and I should |
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have begun writing the bachelor thesis weeks ago. Well maybe I could help out |
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gentoo instead of searching for other excuses not to do my university |
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stuff :) |
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Alex |
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