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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for media-gfx/viewer
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:10:47
Message-Id: m3ws08mfmp.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for media-gfx/viewer by Samuli Suominen
1 >>>>> "Samuli" == Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> writes:
2
3 >> The QA team should generate more patches and fewer kills.
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5 Samuli> Manpower. Feel free to join up and help. A handful of people
6 Samuli> can't fix everything.
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8 It would have taken him less effort to fix the bug and commit a new
9 ebuild when he first saw it than it must have taken to file a bug
10 report and then, months later, kill the package.
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12 And if he doesn't want to be the one to fix it, it is better to just
13 leave it alone.
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15 Samuli> If it's broken, it shouldn't be in tree, simple as that.
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17 As a user, I can only say bullshit to that.
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19 Packages should not go away over trivial issues. That is harmful,
20 not helpful.
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22 -JimC
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24 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

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Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for media-gfx/viewer "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>