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On 06/10/2014 03:52 AM, Thomas Kahle wrote: |
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> On 08/06/14 18:06, hasufell wrote: |
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>> I am not sure if that is a joke. You can pretty much ask most major |
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>> gentoo projects. The ones where I was involved more deeply definitely |
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>> suffer from that problem, including sunrise and games team. Science team |
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>> gave up importing major ebuilds to the tree and just let users manage |
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>> them on github, because that workflow sucks less. |
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> I disagree with that point. If you are referring to sage (or |
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> other larger science projects), then they stay in the overlay |
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> because people feel it is not worth the effort to fix the QA |
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> issues which in turn would be necessary before moving them to the |
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> main tree. |
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I've interacted with the nice people of the sage overlay - in that case |
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it's just the sheer amount of ebuilds, and no one on the gentoo side |
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with the time/motivation to take care of it. (I think I might have |
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borrowed a few of their ebuilds in the past) |
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QA issues are just an easy way to say "they be users, not us smart |
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devs", and that's just silly. If that were an issue you could start |
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fixing their ebuilds now, and once they are in good shape start |
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importing them. As no one has done that I'd say it's not a "QA" problem. |
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> From what I can tell it has nothing to do with bugzilla |
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> vs. github. For me personally bugzilla + a git tree (which is |
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> the situation we have for overlays anyway) is fine. |
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Ah, the old git turkey. |
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Personally I find github amazingly hard to figure out, usually I just |
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click around randomly in the webUI until something happens. |
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Migrating ebuilds is a lot of work, independent of VCS. |
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And if you want the git migration to happen, well, uhm, do something |
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about it. The only work that happened on it this year was me trying to |
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reproduce the last attempts to figure out where things are, a few people |
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like robbat2 providing data, and a few people like ferringb doing |
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minimal fixes to the existing migration scripts. |
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And I'm not even interested in using git! |
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Have fun, |
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Patrick |
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