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On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 23:01, Arthur Britto wrote: |
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> You've just highlighted one of the biggest problems with Gentoo: manual |
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> problem discovery and resolution. When a package breaks, someone must |
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> (1) manually discover it, (2) search mailing lists for Gentoo and the |
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> application, (3) search the forums for Gentoo and the application, (4) |
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> attempt reasonable diagnostics to insure the problem is not just with |
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> their system, (5) if they are competent they might try to solve the |
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> problem, and (6) share their problem with the community. |
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We are taking significant steps to "fix" this, starting with better |
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handling of our bugs (and more accountability of how they are handled) |
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on bugs.gentoo.org. Several developers including myself are now fully |
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caught up on bugs -- unresolved bugs get checked daily for new comments, |
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etc. |
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One of the major things that has caused this "manual discovery" problem |
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is our extremely rapid growth, which resulted in many developers getting |
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overwhelmed with bugs. Once a developer has more than 50 bugs on his |
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plate, it becomes a bit overwhelming to keep tabs on all of them. If |
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they don't get addressed quickly, then they can linger for longer than |
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is acceptable. Our dev team is growing every week to address our rapidly |
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growing user-base. (See our Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, bottom, for devs |
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who were added in the last week.) |
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Just wanted to chime in and say "we're workin' on it!" :) |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins |
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Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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