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On 02/08/06, Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Monday 31 July 2006 04:52, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 30 July 2006 22:28, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> > > 1) Users can submit patches/ideas to bugs.g.o at whatever frequency |
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> > > they desire, contributing to gentoo casually. |
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> > |
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> > load up your browser and check out how many bugs are assigned |
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> > to 'maintainer-wanted@g.o' |
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> |
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> This isn't the problem. We'll never can maintain all this stuff - given the |
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> number of people we're. We need more devs - just to clean up the current tree |
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> and maintain it properly at it's current size one- or two hundred (having |
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> fluctuation in mind) more guys wouldn't harm. The problem is more that we |
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> have devs who constantly add (arbitrary) stuff to the tree, instead cleaning |
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> out and caring for unmaintained stuff, before adding something new. |
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The real problem which you're hinting at is that developer interest is |
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transitory. Nobody thinks "Hell, I'll just add loads of odd crap to |
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the tree and then ignore it", it just happens that people suddenly |
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become interested in some software (maybe for a project, or client..), |
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use it for a while, and then stop using it. Now they are still listed |
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as a maintainer but don't bother version bumping or bug fixing, since |
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they no longer have an interest in the package. Despite this, people |
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keep posting patches to bugzilla, which are ignored (they are lots of |
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user bug reports with simple patch fixes attached that never make it |
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into the tree). The "maintainer for ever" model is broken; hopefully |
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the community maintainer model that Sunrise is encouraging will prove |
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better over time. |
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