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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:49:40 +0100 |
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"Wulf C. Krueger" <philantrop@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> What's the proper fix for when keyword requests stagnate in |
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> >> bugzilla? |
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> > That depends upon whether the keyword request is important. |
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> Let's take a real world example: KDE 3.5.5 is old, buggy and has |
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> some important issues which won't be fixed anymore. |
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Yet it's the most proven version on mips. |
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> > If it is (and legitimately so |
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> I hope you'll accept it when I say that 3.5.5 is such a legitimate |
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> case now. |
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Why? It was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point. |
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> What would you suggest to do now? I think we've done all we could |
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> short of the following: |
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> a) Drop all keywords but those of mips. Leaves mips and, more |
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> importantly, its users with a vulnerable and unmaintained set of |
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> packages. |
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...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for |
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your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when |
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they try to do anything. |
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> b) package.mask 3.5.5 with a big, fat warning and let the users |
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> decide. Same drawbacks as a). |
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...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for |
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your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when |
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they try to do anything. |
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> c) Drop 3.5.5 from the tree. The cleanest but most radical solution. |
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> If mips' users want KDE, they would have to bug (sic!) the mips team. |
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...and break the tree spectacularly, causing huge amounts of pain for |
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your fellow developers when they encounter horrible repoman output when |
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they try to do anything. |
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> The solution I favour by far is c). What's your suggestion or did I |
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> miss any other viable solution? Just doing nothing is not an option |
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> here, I'd say, but state your case. |
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3.5.5 was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point. Thus, it |
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can't be *that* bad. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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