Re: [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches. (auto-bug reports???)

[Stefano Peluchetti]

I know of this problem.
The thing that amazes me is that i very rarely find a bug report for the 
ebuild that doesn't work for me. I usaually commit the bugs i find but 
now it seems clear that some people does'nt do so.
I thing it could be a good idea at this point to introduce an automatic 
(user indipendent) bug report in portage, so that if ebuild compiling 
fails or some other errors arise, portage automagically submit a bug to 
the bug dabatabase of gentoo. That should speed up bugfixing (at lease 
for the majors bugs that prevent even building) and should' nt be that 
hard to implement in portage.
Bye

Stefano Peluchetti

P.S. sorry 4 the bad english


Christian Bartl wrote:
> I don't think that it would be such a good idea.
> I can only speak for myself: As I love Gentoo, but don't have the time
> to test
> known unstable software I'm sure I would be the first user who never
> touches
> the unstable branch. I think Gentoo would get the same problems like
> GNU/Linux
> or Debian: Everyone waits for it getting officially stable and testing
> is has
> to be done by a few freaks.
> Whoever needs a stable Gentoo now only has to read the mailing-lists an
> knows
> about common problems.
> So you great developers: if you want to get you ports tested by many people
> don't tell the community (and me :-) that it isn't stable.
>
> best regards
> Christian
>
> At 22:06 23.07.2002 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> I think it should really be a very good idea to create two different
>> branches of the gentoo distribution. A stable and a unstalbe (or
>> testing) one. This becouse i usually find that some e-build simpy does
>> not compile. I know that it is a relly difficult task to get all the
>> e-build working right, but i also think that some people (like me)
>> should prefer to work with a little outdated packages that have been
>> tested for some time, instead of having to work with cutting edge
>> packages that doesn't compile. Don't get me wrong. I belive that
>> gentoo is the best linux distro i have ever seen, but this should
>> really be an important way to go.
>> It also should be really easy to implement thanks to the possibility
>> to select different profiles.
>> So let me know what you think about this.
>> Thanks
>>
>> Stefano Peluchetti
>>
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