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On Monday 13 February 2006 00:24, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> Maybe not if you have already done the work. I was thinking more of the |
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> scenario, upstream does a release. You are on the mailing list so you |
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> know about the new version. You decide you'll bump it in portage tomorrow. |
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> Overnight, someone files a request for a version bump. Maybe they attach |
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> a new ebuild or state that the existing one needs bumping. |
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This is a scenario quite good... if it wasn't that at least myself I see it |
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rarely :) |
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Rarely because if I see a bump, I'm already starting testing it usually. |
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Yesterday I finished amaroK's bump while I was eating dinner :P |
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In amaroK's case, anyway, there's no problem to know if it has relesed: |
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upstream releases always in time, providing packagers with candidates to |
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release, allowing to prepare stuff before actual release.. the release is |
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also broadcasted in their homepage, on #amarok@freenode, on KDE-Apps, on |
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kde-extra-gear mailing list, usually on Planet KDE, too.... |
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Really, I don't need bugs to remember me to bump it. |
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Mostly the same for k3b.. it's released and then announced on kde-extra-gear, |
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KDE-Apps, SourceForge, .. |
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I can be very thankful if someone would let me know when ALSA gets released as |
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the upstream send mail to -announce once in a blue moon instead.. |
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> That is a fair point, and if you can't afford to spend the time on it |
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> then I'm not complaining. However, there are situations where this can |
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> *save* you time. |
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I try to explain why I did some changes before committing or why I didn't use |
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a given fix usually, I also try to provide documentation of what I do and why |
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I do it that way (see maintainers' guides, that nobody else seems to want). |
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But really, if I get a bug for a thing to be fixed, I try to fix it right |
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away... sometimes if I don't have time in that moment I leave a comment |
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telling where or what to look for..not like there's always someone ready to |
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fix :) |
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If I start thinking "this bug I'll fix later and provide just pointers to |
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users, I'm sure I'm going to forget about it. I actually did that already :) |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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