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On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 22:55 +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > But, nobody likes doing the small stuff, and I can't blame them. |
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> I understand. I do not expect that these packages will have same |
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> attention by developers as major ones. I would understand if |
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> stabilisation or version bumping will be slower than normal. But at |
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> least it should be done somewhen. |
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Most are marked stable at some point. There are a few that are not, for |
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various reasons. |
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> Yes, we (users) should help. But I can't have impression that when |
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> I don't ask for stabilisation/version bump it simply never happen. |
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It *should* happen, no matter what. However, we've seen that this is |
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not always the case with every package, especially with packages that |
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are used by a very small subset of our users. |
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<snip> |
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> From the user point of view it is simply lot of work, lot of |
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> maintaining a distribution to fill a bug for every action that should |
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> be made on package. |
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Yes, it is. Gentoo is a community-based distribution. If the community |
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doesn't help out, nothing gets done. It's not like we get paid to do |
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this or anything. |
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> Again, I agree that we should help, but if our busyness does not allow |
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> it for a while, the packages should move anyway. |
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Yes, they should. Again, it simply doesn't always happen. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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