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On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:00:16 +0100 |
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Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> In this case the maintainer isn't needed on the bug anymore. |
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You can't simply drop your old toys when you get bored with them. |
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You're leaving a mess in the tree and blaming others. You have achieved |
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nothing else. |
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> > Or when another arch alias got CC'd later on. Or when a maintainer |
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> > got fed up waiting and reassigned to an arch team in a "rage quit". |
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> > And so on. It makes very messy bug reports. Musical chairs, anyone? |
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> The music seems unfit for the situation, how does this apply here? |
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Google "musical chairs". |
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> > > If we want a separate assignee for old stabilizations, what about |
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> > > a separate project that handles this, or maybe we could assign the |
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> > > bugs to m-n or something until the arch teams catch up? |
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> > Again, where is the man power for that? :-) |
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> The lack of manpower is a given by this thread, it's more about |
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> relief. |
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So maintainers should clean up their old ebuilds and not expect |
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understaffed arch teams to do it for them. Since elsewhere you actually |
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agreed with WilliamH agreeing with me on this point, it isn't clear what |
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you're meaningfully trying to add here. |
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> Exactly, it's that simple; but, it will be reverted per policy. |
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Is the punctuation supposed to mean anything here? I can't make sense |
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of this otherwise. |
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> Stabilization requires tons of manpower to really work; the only way |
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> to get that to happen with high efficiency and effectivity is to |
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> bring a lot more people to the table, and let it also be done by the |
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> users that already have interest in running ~ on their systems. |
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You're again negating the premise that the team that is expected to do |
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the work is understaffed. This isn't a company where you simply hire |
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some more people to do the work or bring in an interim manager to fix |
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a team. The way volunteer work gets done is that you let stuff bitrot |
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for a while, make users suffer, and that if no one turns up to do the |
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work for you, someone will come in and clean up. |
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