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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> And as for taking it as a PISSOFF... We've had exactly one person do |
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> that so far. All the rest of the feedback we receive -- which is a heck |
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> of a lot -- is of the "thanks for the pointers, please could someone |
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> check this updated ebuild?" and occasionally "could you clarify $blah |
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> for me please?" variety. |
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My first inclination is to take "WONTFIX" as "PISSOFF", and I even read |
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the previous thread in question. :) |
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I humbly suggest adding a "REVIEWED" and/or "NEEDSWORK" keyword and |
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leaving the bug in the OPEN or ASSIGNED state. |
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But adding the comments (with pointers to more in-depth explanations) is |
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a great idea, especially if you present them in a cordial way: |
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Thanks for helping Gentoo! The ebuild you submitted isn't quite |
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ready, so here is what one needs to do to get it in the tree: |
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Thanks again! |
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Which is probably what you're doing already. :) |
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As for missing/AWOL developers, and for developer/user problem |
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resolution, I *think* devrel handles that: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/ |
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Nathan |
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