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On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:08:25 +0100 |
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Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > If a package has a responsive maintainer, then pinging them isn't |
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> > really much of a hurdle. |
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> I'm not so sure. Waiting for a human round trip which due merely to |
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> time zones might occupy my attention for 24 hours (even if I |
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> obviously do other things meanwhile) is IMO quite significantly |
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> different from the 24 seconds it might take for me to commit a fix. |
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For really severe bugs I think that pinging just anyone who is around |
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will do, alternatively you could ping the proxy maintainers herd. In |
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both cases there is most of the time someone available; so, it would be |
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a matter of minutes to have the patch applied. |
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And for bugs that can wait, it doesn't really matter that there is a |
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slight delay; with a ping where you provide a patch it is still fixed |
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faster than the average bug on bugzilla (assuming maintainer has time). |
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Please note that the average commit takes longer than 24 seconds as it |
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involves testing the change, repoman checks and similar QA matters. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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