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On Sunday 08 January 2006 15:01, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> Guessing you missed the previous flame war about how trying to force |
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> people to do something doesn't actually work? |
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When it's not common sense, that every dev is supposed to do a minimal on |
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general QA, Gentoo has a problem. |
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> You're assuming seasoned devs don't occasionally go MIA on |
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> QA/maintenance? It's not the case... |
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I did not assume anything, I propose better QA. |
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> > but would slowdown those who continually add new |
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> > packages [ snip vitriolic opinions ] |
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Thanks for calling something a vitriolic opinion, I did notice a few times, so |
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it's a description of what's happening, but does not imply the majority of |
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devs do so. |
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> If you've got an issue with certain devs (seems to be the case from |
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> your statement), take it up with QA/ombudsman, not the loop |
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> around attempt you're doing here. |
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> If you're after trying to decrease the unmaintained packages, like I |
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> said, generate a list _from the tree_, compare it to bugs, etc. Do |
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> the legwork, kick off the effort to cover the gap. |
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> Basically, you want to decrease bugs for unmaintained, decrease the |
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> gap of maintained vs unmaintained, work on _that_ rather then trying |
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> to force everyone to drop what they're doing and fix an issue they're |
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> already working on at their own pace. |
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> Folks *are* handling retirement of unmaintained packages, and taking |
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> on maintainance of packages already- just watch -dev for the |
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> occasional announcements if you think otherwise. |
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To answer this paragraph in a short sentence: No, it doesn't work at the |
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moment, and yes I'd like everyone would be urged to care a bit more, not |
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leaving the legwork to a single person or small group, accepting that devs |
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can feel as irresponsible as they like. |
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Carsten |