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hmmm...I never intended to imply that the ebuild repository and bugs |
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wouldn't be integrated....only that the avg joe downloader wouldn't be |
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forced to learn a developer tool and that the ebuild repository would |
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automatically push issues into the bugs database. |
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To take this step up another notch, when bugs are fixed for a particular |
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package, the issues surrounding the bug are suppressed to just a link |
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called "past bugs" but when a bug is actively open, then the issues for |
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that bug are displayed prominently for the end user so he can quickly |
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determine if the package is going to meet his needs. |
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This is something that would be most important to me as a new Linux |
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user...I'm trying to find |
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good quality packages and I know little about their background, but if I |
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can read comments about them and see that there are bug issues at the |
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moment, I can choose to move on to another package or attempt to work |
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around the known bug issues. |
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Michael |
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At 01:26 AM 3/17/2002 +0100, you wrote: |
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>On Saturday 16 March 2002 23:09, Brent Cook wrote: |
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> > Do you essentially mean http://www.freshports.org/ with |
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> > comments? |
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>that's cool, but imho there should be some way to leverage |
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>bugs.gentoo.org by integrating both. i think it would be an |
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>overkill having a separate "ebuild repository", it should rather |
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>be kept central. |
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>probably a simple link like |
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>http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?component=Ebuilds |
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>(add your date constraints) |
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> |
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>would be sufficient if we just agreed on a standardized way how |
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>ebuild submissions (and error reports) have to be made. this |
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>could be done by "forcing" a formatted summary field. e.g. for |
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>ebuild submissions: |
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>${P} ${DESCRIPTION} |
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>this would be suitable for most users (as gentoo mainly targets |
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>developers/professionals and as the ebuild names are usually |
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>self-explanatory). disclaimer: i do not know whether forcing |
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>field formats is possible with bugzilla. a voting feature |
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>would be nice too. |
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>rgds |
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> |
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>dan |
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