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On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 22:05, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> What is the recommended way then to get in touch with the devs? We |
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> thought that sending a mail to -dev would be the best way. See |
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> Lovechilds mail as a RFC. Your mail had some good points, but I think it |
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> sounds quite harsh. |
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Bugzilla is the recommended way and i think that's mentioned in docs |
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(altough i haven't read one in ages), maybe a personal mail will do as |
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well. Devs got a lot of stuff to do usually and its hard to keep track |
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of that without something like bugzilla. |
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About being harsh : we're all adults here (well maybe not me, but hey), |
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we don't have to wrap up everything in soothing phrases do we ? It's not |
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politics or something. Just get to your point and don't quote 2 layers |
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of replies unneeded (pun intended). |
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> Ok, we all calm down a bit. I can't talk for the others, but I see the |
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> project as a testbed for ebuild modifications that can be tested by |
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> users before they get submitted to bugs.g.o. |
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As long as you state _very clearly_ those ebuilds are unsupported by |
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Gentoo and it's development team. Even then it's possible we run into |
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problems caused by your ebuilds. Imagine how hard those are to track |
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down. |
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> As Lovechild has said there |
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> are also discussions about new use flags and other modifications to the |
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> current portage system. I missed the discussion on IRC but I saw that |
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> you were backed by other devs. Please notice that this projects has been |
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> started just for a few days so of course we haven't clarified all |
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> issues. |
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Well Gentoo has been around for a few years now and still hasn't reached |
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Distro Nirwana , it's a long way soulsearching for the right way to your |
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true perfect self. Don't think these issues you see, these ideas you |
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have, have never been brought up before. Just because you never saw them |
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doesn't mean they haven't been discussed and thought about. |
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That doesn't mean i don't want to support things you might bring up, but |
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you might find we have good reasons we do the things how we do them (you |
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don't say huh). |
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People sometimes come up to me and ask me how they can help. I always |
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tell them to go to our bugzilla and pick up a few bugs, look at them and |
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find a solution. Somehow it never happens, somehow i never see someone |
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fixing a bug and posting the solution to bugzilla. You might want to |
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rethink your approach and try help work down our amount of bugs first |
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instead of setting out with the intent to introduce more. |
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- foser |
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