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(apologies for the messed up time in my last message) |
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On Friday 18 November 2005 06:53 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> We've seen why this won't work in the past... Too few users know how to |
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> do proper testing. We've had "please keyword, works for me" bugs for |
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> things that will always segfault on startup. We've had several people |
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> who think it'd be clever to automate testing reports. We've got enough |
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> ricers out there that clearly broken things would end up getting "works |
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> for me" spammed even more than they are already... |
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Yeah, it's not a perfect solution, but nothing is. |
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I think having users systems would be profiled may help ease the ricer issue. |
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fex, user A has 3 systems, and marks package B as "!WFM" on one. devs can |
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cross link that negative mark to the system profile and note that it's "-O12 |
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--omg-itsofast", and disregard the negative mark. You could even take it a |
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step further and setup ratings for the registered users, and those who end up |
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with a set negativity don't count or something (for the ricers).. |
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Not saying this is something that stability or instability should be |
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automatically assumed from, but that it be used as another tool. Something |
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to bridge that "poweruser" - "dev" gap. |
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Just openly brainstorming here.. |
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Corey Shields |
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Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team |
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Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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