Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: stabilization policies

[Tom Wijsman]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:54:51 +0400
Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote:

> 21.08.2013 13:13, Tom Wijsman пишет:
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:32:35 +0400
> > Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> 21.08.2013 12:13, Tom Wijsman пишет:
> >>> Recruiting shows to be a hard task; so, the suggestions I am doing
> >>> are assuming that that doesn't work out. In which case, I wonder
> >>> what "by some other ways" you would think of...
> >>
> >> Dropping some keywords to unstable on minor arches.
> >
> > If we grow (like you said below), then doing less seems like a
> > decision that we shouldn't take; it is rather about "doing it
> > different" to use our resources in a better way. Crowd sourcing
> > users is an option here...
>
> What crowd sourcing do you talking about? We have Arch Tester for
> that. Do you see vast interest in this initiative? I think not(thus,
> for major arches we have some amount of testers, some of them are
> became developers lately).

Yes, it is a large share of users that run ~, they "want to test".

> And if you want to move stabilization checks to unqualified users,
> then it is way to nowhere.

No, because there would be much more users giving feedback.

> > So, recruiting in the terms of "finding recruits" appears to be
> > hard.
>
> But, at my POV, it is only one way that we can improve current
> situation.

Sorry, I do not understand (language barrier), do you mean that 1) that
should be the way to improve it or do you mean that 2) this is just one
approach and that we should look at different ones?

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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