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Hello friends! |
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On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> 171119 James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:50:20 -0500 |
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>> Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>>> 171118 David Seifert wrote: |
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>>>> As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all |
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>>>> games packages, we have dropped all games-* ebuilds to unstable |
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>>>> keywords (modulo those required by stable non-games packages). |
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>>> Isn't this overkill in the absence of widespread bug reports for games ? |
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>>> 'Stable' doesn't mean well-maintained, |
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>>> but in the tree for some time & no serious bug reports. |
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>> There are plenty of bug reports for games. |
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> What percentage of games pkgs have bugs ? |
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I too would like some clarification on the standards being used. |
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> Marking all games 'unstable' still seems to be overkill. |
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To add to this, it is unlikely the situation will improve until it is |
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made easier for people to contribute. If one is not aware there is a |
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tendency for Gentoo-related issues to receive blog posts addressing |
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them, or to be passed down via word of mouth on IRC, or to be hidden |
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in a hard-to-find (and/or index) page of the Wiki. |
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The most likely explanation for this state of affairs is that getting |
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contributions accepted into the main tree is too hard. |
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It is one thing to say that contributions to the main Portage tree |
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require some standards to be upheld, but these standards do not seem |
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to be applied consistently. For example, crossdev, genkernel, and the |
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bootstrap-prefix and bootstrap-rap scripts are more or less |
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unmaintainable disasters. Crossdev in particular oscillates between |
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periods of relative stability and extreme brokenness, and the |
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bootstrap scripts are poorly explained with no extant documentation |
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and a workflow that does not clearly fit into Gentoo (or more properly |
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Portage) development at large. Other ebuilds may simply install low |
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quality software, or install software that is hard to manage with |
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Portage. |
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Respectfully, |
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R0b0t1 |
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