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On Monday 09 November 2009 13:08:52 Peter Volkov wrote: |
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> Well, it looks like the root of this problem is the following statement: |
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> "QA is less important then new packages in the tree". I failed to hear |
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> any arguments why QA is unimportant so I still believe that QA problem |
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> is a problem. |
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Ok, here's the real problem; |
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"Unmaintained stuff is unmaintained" |
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And instead of being happy that people like ssuominen just fix things where |
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other people don't (be it because these other people have no interest, only |
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care about a few packages or have become distracted with life) some people get |
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really confused and start working on demotivating us. |
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You should understand one thing: I don't care at all about most packages. I'm |
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handling virtualbox because right now jokey doesn't seem to have the time. I |
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fixed Xen bugs because drobbins pointed out that there were a few bugs with |
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it, and the current maintainers seem to have gone for a long walk in the park. |
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Can't blame anyone there (I've disappeared for some time too), but those |
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packages would be in a really useless state now. |
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And if I break something for a day or two, well, that's ~arch for you. I try |
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to avoid breaking things, but if things break in ~arch the users shouldn't be |
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too surprised. Otherwise we wouldn't even have to care about having the |
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arch/~arch split. Better a slightly buggy version than a security-exploitable |
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version. Especially when the bug gets fixed the next day. |
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So find me a dozen recruits that can properly maintain things and I won't feel |
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the need to touch random packages. Stop living in your sandbox and have a look |
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at the bigger picture :) |
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(Btw, I wonder how many bugs glibc-2.11 will bring. We'll just let users |
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discover them. I love that QA!) |
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I'm trying to get people to help me, but it's a slow tedious process to even |
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motivate most. And then our recruiting puts up a virtual wall many don't want |
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to climb over. At times it's tiring, it's demotivating, and still we go on. |
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Because we still believe that we can improve things. And as they say, you |
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can't make an omlette without breaking some eggs. |
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Take care, |
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Patrick |