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Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 19:26:00 Thomas Anderson wrote: |
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>> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 05:06:43PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>>> On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:50:47 Richard Freeman wrote: |
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>>>> Arch |
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>>>> teams seem to be generally doing a good job keeping up with STABLEREQs |
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>>>> on the major archs - if you use a minor arch that isn't as well |
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>>>> supported I'm sure we'd be happy to have more help. |
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>>> Arch teams, according to their project pages, are in a good shape. Major |
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>>> arches have enough people ( assuming that the project pages are up2date ) |
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>> The amd64 project page at least is definitely not. We have a ton of |
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>> slackers. I'd venture to say most in the project don't actively work on |
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>> amd64 at all. We are handling the load fairly well though. |
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>> |
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>> Thomas |
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> /me is listing all the reported issues |
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> Really? I was thinking about joining amd64 project but when I visited the |
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> project page , I saw like 25 people listed as developers. So I thought that |
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> "Woow,there are plenty of dudes here, so there is no urgent need for new |
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> developers right now" |
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> This is a major issue as well. If the project pages are way out of date, how |
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> do we expect people to understand our real needs on manpower etc. Cleaning and |
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> updating the project pages once a while is not that difficult. It takes about |
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> 15' ( and a couple of e-mails to inform the slackers ). |
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> If we really (?) want to run a "recruitment" campaign, our "web presence" but |
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> be quite active and responsible. |
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> |
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Is all this "help needed" stuff that ordinary users can help out with? |
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If so dont people go and ask for help in the forums? |
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