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12.9.2005, 19:32:32, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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> To have even more unmaintained packages in the tree. The tree it is that |
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> needs QA. If "maintainer-wanted" bugs stay open forever - who cares. |
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> Thanks for the pointer. :p So from the user point of view it's better to file |
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> a request without attaching an ebuild, because it wouldn't directly resolved |
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> WONTFIX?! (Before you answer that: From the user point of view, not your's.) |
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> I mean I'm often giving a pointer on an formal issue or a very wrong attempt, |
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> but being that strict is not neecessary, discouraging and probably some even |
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> take the chance to molest about Gentoo, imho. |
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Not at all. There are *lots* of people that actually fix their ebuilds very |
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quickly and appreciate the comments. And - as everywhere - there's also a bunch |
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of people that start bitching instead of taking 5 minutes to fix the thing. |
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Since you said above, that you really don't care if those user-submitted |
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ebuilds will ever get into portage or will stay in maintainer-wanted queue |
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forever and that's the stuff in portage that actually matters QA-wise, I'm |
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missing why are you worried about people not submitting their ebuilds any more. |
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At the very least, reviewing user-submitted ebuilds and marking things |
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WONTFIX/CANTFIX/REVIEWED makes it possible to filter out the outdated and |
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dead-upstream crap, as well as things about which those people who filed the |
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bugs don't care any more. And, if someone picks those ebuilds up and decides to |
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maintain them, he can focus more on testing the actual app then fixing a broken |
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ebuild (or even committing a broken ebuild into the tree). |
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Best regards, |
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Jakub Moc |
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mailto:jakub@g.o |
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... still no signature ;) |