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From: Alec Joseph Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hold on portage feature requests
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:53:06
Message-Id: 42E90CBB.3080403@egr.msu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Hold on portage feature requests by Donnie Berkholz
1 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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5 > Jason Stubbs wrote:
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7 > | The reason behind this is that at approximately two thirds of bugs
8 > received
9 > | are feature requests and they are drowning at the real bugs. More
10 > importantly,
11 > | the critical bugs are becoming very hard to keep track of. This, at a
12 > time
13 > | when we are focusing on fixing major and critical bugs only so as to
14 > get the
15 > | next version completed quicker.
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17 > Are you having a tough time filtering out enhancements in your queries
18 > or something? I don't understand how feature requests could possibly
19 > interfere with anything besides other enhancements.
20 >
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22 Many of the enhancements aren't marked as such, dev-portage has a lot of
23 bugs ( I've been watching it for 4 months ) and they are varied, old and
24 extremely difficult to manage at present. As long as the bugs are
25 still in bugzilla I din't see a problem with them being closed.
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27 > Thanks,
28 > Donnie
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