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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:52:19AM -0400, Preston A. Elder wrote: |
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> On Monday 26 August 2002 02:43 am, Paul wrote: |
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> > I have noticed that the numbers assigned to each of my |
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> > new bug reports has been advancing at such a high rate over time, |
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> > that I am given to wonder if the developers can keep up. My |
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> > ebuilds especially have seemed to languish lately. |
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> As more users (especially inexperienced and bug-happy ones) use gentoo, more |
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> bugs get raised, often times to be marked as duplicates or user error. |
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> As for the ebuilds languisihing longer, there are two reasons for this. |
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> First, we try to give bugs higher priority ... the whole 'clean up your house |
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> as is before taking in more mess', and |
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> Second, we're gearing up to release gentoo 1.4, which means theres basically |
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> no new packages being added to the tree unless we want to justify it to |
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> Daniel Robbins (which makes sense, you dont want to keep introducing more |
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> problems when your trying to stabalize a release). |
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And they have to go through a specific set of privileged people. |
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> > How are you guys doing? Do you have any areas that you |
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> > would like us to focus on? (eg. QA) I could squeeze out ebuilds |
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> > regularly, but I tend to wait on those in the pipeline. |
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> re: where to focus on, thats not my domain, however documentation is ALWAYS |
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> appreciated (developers hate documenting things ;). As for the new ebuilds, |
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> you can submit them to bugzilla, just dont expect them to be added to the |
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> system before 1.4 is released. |
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Q: Can I help, can I help |
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A: Sure, you can take out the trash and scrub the toilets. |
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> > I havent checked, but is gentoo-core still closed? |
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> yes, it is. |
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Ivory tower? |
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> - -- |
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> PreZ |
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> Developer |
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> Gentoo Technologies |
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> http://www.gentoo.org |
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As a user of Gentoo, I feel like a child whose parent has to double |
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check everything I do. And in the same way that the child |
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becomes frustrated with their parent because they place no trust |
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in the child, I am frustrated with Gentoo because it places no |
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trust in the users. |
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Among all the distributions I am familiar with, Gentoo is, |
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in my opinion, the best as far as placing trust in it's users. |
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But Gentoo is also, in my opinion, far from what I imagine as ideal. |
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Jeremiah Mahler |
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<jmahler@×××××××.net> |
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