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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:47 +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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>>We have received *numerous* complaints from users about the decision to |
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>>remove stage 1 and 2 from the installation documentation. I realize it's |
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>>still available if users are willing to dig for it, but not all users do. |
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>>In my years of monitoring www@g.o, we've received the most |
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>>complaints about this decision than any other single decision. Is there a |
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>>way we can re-introduce the stages into the installation documentation, |
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>>perhaps with gigantic warnings saying, "for advanced users only" or "use at |
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>>your own risk"? |
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> The problem is that we (releng) cannot possibly keep up with the number |
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> of possible bugs that are being introduced via USE flags. It used to be |
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> that if someone introduced a USE flag into *any* package that would show |
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> up under "system" that they would make sure the damn thing would pass a |
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> stage1->stage3 process. Now, we're receiving bugs and emails quite |
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> often from problems where things like "hal" are being pulled in to |
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> system, which is a major problem, as it requires a configured kernel, |
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> which, of course, doesn't exist at this point. |
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> As I am now not only the Release Engineering lead, but also the x86 |
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> Release Coordinator, I am fielding nearly 100% of these issues. |
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> I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME TO DO OTHER PEOPLE'S QA FOR THEM. |
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If you are that overworked, perhaps you should find more people to help |
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with releng and the duties you have? I've been in a similar position as |
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yourself where its hard to find good quality folks that stick around, |
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and then you get used to doing everything yourself. I haven't seen any |
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emails asking for help or people for releng. This is the first I've |
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heard of your troubles with not having adequate time for all the duties |
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you do yourself. |
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If you need help, please ask for it and at least try and get some of |
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that load off of you so that we don't take things out of gentoo simply |
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because of the lack of time. |
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Cheers- |
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Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o> |
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Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager |
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