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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:53:26 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> |
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| On Monday 12 September 2005 19:56, Jakub Moc wrote: |
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| 1. The biggest share of maintenance isn't getting an ebuild right, |
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| but the ongoing effort keeping it up to date, applying patches, |
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| interact with upstream developers, test, stabilize,... To me it |
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| absolutely doesn't matter, if an ebuild is broken or not before |
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| taking into account to maintain it. |
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A lot of that depends upon the package in question. Some of the things |
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I maintain have pretty tricky ebuilds and some fairly hairy eclass |
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voodoo, but the actual bumps are almost always extremely quick and |
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simple. |
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| 2. People are interested in applications, but may not have the skills |
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| or interest to get an ebuild 100% perfect. WONTFIX will look like |
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| PISSOFF for them. I think we just look a bit petty-minded. |
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We don't WONTFIX it without an explanation. I always give something |
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along the lines of "Please attach an updated ebuild with the following |
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things fixed and reopen:". |
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*shrug* If someone wants to create a new bugzilla resolution, I'll |
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start using it, but for now, WONTFIX is what we agreed was the most |
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suitable resolution. |
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And as for taking it as a PISSOFF... We've had exactly one person do |
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that so far. All the rest of the feedback we receive -- which is a heck |
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of a lot -- is of the "thanks for the pointers, please could someone |
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check this updated ebuild?" and occasionally "could you clarify $blah |
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for me please?" variety. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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