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On 20:46 Sun 13 Sep , Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:15:34 +0200 |
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> Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> > > Personally I don't see how gaming the system helps us in any way. |
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> > I was afraid it could be read in such a way. Handing out fake version |
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> > numbers would be much easier, wouldn't it? I want every single package |
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> > int he tree to be stable, up to date and polished. But as our resources |
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> > are limited let's focus on packages that are most important first. |
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> That's actually what I meant by gaming the system. We could keep those |
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> particular packages up to the minute, but it wouldn't reflect the state of |
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> our distro as a whole. It's a false metric and I don't see the advantage in |
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> pandering to it. It's much more important that our packages actually work |
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> together than have the highest numbers. |
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At the same time, we also want to ensure that any badly out-of-date |
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packages on there aren't outliers that reflect poorly on our actual |
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average status. And frankly, having any way to monitor popular yet |
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outdated packages is a good thing. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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