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On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:26, Robert Cole wrote: |
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> On Tue January 06 2004 4:33 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> <snip> |
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> > > dev says "ok, that sounds fun." I mean, I got passed back and forth |
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> > > from hardened to general and back a few times and it was all because |
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> > > the devs reviewing my bug(s) didn't understand the packages. |
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> > |
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> > I'm sorry for that. It however can be a sign that the tree is not ready |
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> > for those ebuilds, or that they are in very low demand. |
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> If someone has gone their entire life using a rock to hammer nails and has |
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> never heard of a hammer before and thus doesn't have the demand for it does |
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> that mean that if they are told about the hammer they won't use it or have a |
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> demand for always having it? |
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> |
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> Sometimes you create demand where one doesn't currently exist by simply |
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> telling people about the hammer. |
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Great! Then tell people about your wonderful "hammer" and get some |
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support behind it. Something does not have to be in the official |
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portage tree to gain support. I can guarantee you that if there's |
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momentum behind it, that a developer will either pick it up and add it |
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officially, or possibly a new developer will be added to work with the |
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"hammer" if it proves to be big enough. |
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> > > Basically, I just find that the entire ebuild submission process could |
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> > > definitely be streamlined as to take less dev time and be more |
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> > > rewarding for the users actually doing the submissions. Including |
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> > > having user response saying, "hey, so and so just bumped package-x.y.y |
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> > > to package-x.y.z and it builds fine with a renamed and digested |
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> > > ebuild." |
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> > I would agree with that. However I don't know how to do it in a good way |
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> > that preserves quality. |
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> There is but it will take effort and time to setup. Sometimes if not always |
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> time is required to save time in the long run. Kind of like it takes money to |
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> make money. It takes time to save it. Fine grain controls on cvs are required |
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> now. If you want until they are fully needed then there will be a ton of |
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> pressure to get it done yesterday. Lets not REact let's be proactive. |
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> If there is a way to make cvs ownership based that would be the easiest |
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> administration wise. As in the ebuild(s) I submit I have access to and |
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> nothing else. |
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> Robert |
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