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Raúl Porcel wrote: |
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> IIRC you are from the blubb era, i'm i right? Blubb did a really god job |
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> with amd64, and in fact amd64 started 'slacking' since blubb left. |
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> Unfortunately that doesn't work anymore, in a lot of bugs i've seen an |
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> AT of yours posting his results, when i was going to do my arches. So i |
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> was more faster even that i have no ATs. |
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Yup - blubb is certainly missed. I can't point any fingers myself - I |
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try to find and stabilize packages as I'm able to, but I can only spend |
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so much time on gentoo. Every little bit helps though, even if I'm not |
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high on the commits/day rankings. |
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There are amd64 ATs out there - which brings up the other thread |
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floating around. We need better ways to flag bugs that have been |
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touched by an AT - for all I know there are a dozen open bugs that an AT |
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has tested, but if there aren't any keywords or anything else I can |
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query for, I can't get them stabilized. |
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> Indeed, but on x86 we don't assume it either :) I don't understand how |
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> you having so many users, have manpower problems, you have two channels |
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> on IRC, x86 only has one and nobody says anything. |
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> It's just a though, i'm not blaming anyone. |
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My observation is that there are heavy-lifters who do a disproportionate |
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share of the work. I'm certainly not one of them, and I really do |
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appreciate these folks. If a heavy-lifter gives attention to something, |
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it will shine. However, Gentoo is a volunteer-driven organization, and |
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you can't order heavy-lifters to work on something in particular - it is |
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their passion for what they choose to work on that makes them so |
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effective. I guess what we need is processes that enable lots of small |
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contributors to make a big difference - the bazzar approach. |
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Another reply on this thread pointed out that it would be nice to be |
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able to tell what packages people are using - if we could tell what is |
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being used it would help guide stabilization without sacrificing testing |
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(our users would be de-facto ATs without realizing it). The power of a |
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thousand people doing very little can add up - many users would gladly |
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sign up to have their packages monitored if it would help the gentoo cause. |
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