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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:16:15 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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| We get innundated with tons of bogus bug reports every day, overlays |
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| or not - see the number of invalid/duplicate bugs flowing every days. |
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| We got a couple of bugs in last two a three days basically stating |
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| "ZOMG, glibc downgrade broke my system, t3h Gentoo bug!!11!!" - so |
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| what? They get marked as invalid, live goes on. This argument really |
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| doesn't stand. |
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They get marked as invalid after how long? There're some really subtle |
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ways in which libraries can screw things up. I've dealt with far too |
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many bug reports where it took a heck of a lot of debugging before it |
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became clear that the cause was some dodgy external stuff. And that |
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was with me understanding the packages in question -- there's no way |
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bug wranglers could've figured it out. |
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| As this should be a separate thread, just one reason or example - I'm |
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| really uncomfortable e.g. w/ QA intervening in overlays stuff, |
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| considering the current way QA is being done in Gentoo... |
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I'm really uncomfortable with QA intervening anywhere. It would be far |
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nicer if the appropriate developers ensured that they weren't breaking |
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anything. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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