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I'd like to add a few words from the users perspective: |
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> 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? |
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I hope developers are not annoyed - well, sometimes the words chosen are |
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maybe a bit too offensive. |
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I like these bump requests. I add myself as a CC and wait for some email |
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in my inbox saying "it's in the tree" like most devs like to express it. |
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Unfortunatly, i still have to wait half on hour, until the ebuild is |
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available in the mirrors. |
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Here's my little theory why there are these 0-day bump requests: |
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Gentoo Maintainers seem to be very different. There are packages (opera |
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for example) where we're offered the latest of the latest (even betas |
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and pre-releases and stuff), and new versions are in portage before |
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you've read the news on your favourite news-site. |
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And on the other hand, there are packages like filezilla (to just name |
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an example) where it took ages to get a new version. In addition, |
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filezilla is one of the softwares that shouts at you: "there is a new |
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version of me available. get it now!" |
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And on the third hand (damn, humans only have two) there are important |
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releases like pidgin 2.4.3 which has fixed the ICQ login issue. You saw |
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the bump-request coming, didn't you? |
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> 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early |
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> version bump requests? |
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Oh please don't discourage bump-requests, even if they are 0-day. I like |
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them because I CC to them. |
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Regards, |
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Sven |
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