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Robin H. Johnson posted |
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<20050720070457.GC11608@××××××××××××××××××××××××.net>, excerpted below, |
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on Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:04:57 -0700: |
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>> > And as I've mentioned before I'd like MORE reports of packages working |
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>> > well before they are moved to stable arch. Without those stable |
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>> > working reports I don't have any means to judge just how much testing |
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>> > has been done on a package, other than my own use of a package (and as |
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>> > such I do leave things longer than the 30 days, because I don't |
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>> > entirely trust them). |
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>> This sounds like a request for the QA team. I tend to stay away from |
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>> most ~arch packages simply because most of our systems are live |
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>> production servers, but I'd be happy to test-drive new ebuilds of |
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>> vpopmail if it would help get new versions into the stable tree faster. |
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> In the absence of a proper QA team, users are some of the best |
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> large-scale QA available. All I'm asking for are reports that a package |
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> "Works for me". Try the ebuilds out, and send some feedback in. |
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As a ~arch user (~amd64), and sometimes even a -* and/or hardmasked for |
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testing user, this is right up my alley, altho I don't use these specific |
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packages. |
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What's the best mechanism (other than becoming an AT, which I'm working |
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on) for a user to report such working ~arch packages, without spamming the |
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devs working so hard to stabilize them? ATs have specific procedures in |
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place for marking an ebuild TESTED and requesting moving from unkeyworded |
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to ~arch, and from ~arch to stable (for amd64 ATs, here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/tests/index.xml ), but there do |
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not appear to be any such procedures outlined for normal ~arch users, at |
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least that' I've come across. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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