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Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote: |
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> 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? |
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I think any version bump request at any time is worthwhile. The earlier |
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the better! |
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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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No. And I honestly don't understand other devs' reluctance for 0-day |
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bug requests. Maybe I just don't have enough packages to be annoyed by |
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the bug-spam, or maybe I'm just too lazy to check upstream's sites all |
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day long, but I like to know that people are excited about the packages |
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I maintain. |
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Here's an interesting solution for those who find it annoying though: |
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Just file your own 0-day bump request in bugzilla. In theory some users |
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would find this and just CC themselves on it. Other users could be |
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shushed with the shame of the DUPLICATE. Everyone wins! |
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If someone had huge amounts of time, having a special bugzilla |
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interface to show current, pending, and requested versions of each |
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package (Sort of like an interactive packages.g.o?) may be a neat |
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project... maybe next year's GSOC? |
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P.S. Sorry about the lateness of the post - My ISP's comcastic smtp |
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server decided it wasn't going to work all weekend long. |
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Jim Ramsay |
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Gentoo Developer (rox/fluxbox/gkrellm) |
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