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> When arch people get dozens to hundreds of bug emails per day, no, it's |
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> not. A simple "this is now a security issue, see bug blah" makes it an |
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> awful lot easier for arch people to prioritise -- emails that merely |
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> show blockers added or removed tend to get ignored because a) they're |
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> almost always meaningless changes from the arch team's perspective, and |
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> b) the bug email doesn't convey any useful information on its own |
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> anyway. |
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That's making the assumption that anyone looked at it, of course. Please |
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note comment #9 on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198346. It |
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was still ~8 days from then that the setuptools keyword was added. |
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So, we have examples of impact due to delay in keywords/etc. Shall we |
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proceed with the discussion of what to do about it? |
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Thanks, |
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Marty |
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