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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 01:00:51AM +0200, Rainer Groesslinger wrote: |
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> stable.gentoo.org is _great_ ! Thanks so much to blizzy |
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> (unfortunatly he's not in the dev team any more). The problem here |
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> is that this site must be pushed quite hard because there are |
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> packages in the tree only a few people use and if those people don't |
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> use stable.gentoo.org they won't be stable anytime soon or might - |
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> in a bad case - be pushed into stable because nobody complain |
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> although it's just because nobody uses stable.gentoo.org |
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I'm running a mix of 'stable' and 'unstable' packages. I try to report |
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if they work as much as possible to the stable.gentoo.org, but it's |
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hard to keep track of what I'm running as stable, and what I'm running |
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as unstable... The problem is, that when I've just installed an |
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unstable package, I can't say much about the 'stableness' of it, I can |
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just say if it emerges or not. And if it didn't emerge properly, I |
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would use bugs.gentoo.org, not stable.gentoo.org. And after running my |
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unstable package for a week, I can witness of the stability of the |
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package, but by then, I have forgotten all about reporting it... |
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Thus, I propose an extension to emerge that would look through your |
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system and see which packages are marked as 'unstable' and ask the |
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user interactively if they think the packages are OK. The responses |
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could be of the type: |
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1) Yes, I've used it extensively and it works. |
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2) Yes, I've used it somewhat and it seems to work. |
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3) No idea, I don't think I've used it, but nothing is broke. |
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4) No idea, I haven't used it at all yet. |
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5) No, it doesn't work and I've used bugzilla to report the bug. |
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You hopefully get the idea... |
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Combine it with some kind of cgi-gateway on stable.gentoo.org, |
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similar to the one at the stats.gentoo.org and it would be quite |
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simple for users to start tracking their unstable packages so they |
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could be adopted for stable. |
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I know, talk isn't worth anything and code is everything. ;) |
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//H |
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To segfault is human; to bluescreen moronic. |
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