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Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> [completely offtopic from this thread, please fork thread if/when replying] |
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> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Since the advent of outside overlays and layman, |
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>> we've seen many more bugs that only got discovered when the tree was |
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>> synced with some developer overlay, or when a Great Unveiling was done |
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>> after limited, private, small scale testing (as with many GNOME and KDE |
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>> releases, not to point the finger). |
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> If GNOME is involved, I would like you to point some fingers and tell |
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> us exactly where you think we went wrong; exactly which "Great |
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> Unveiling" are you talking about? If you don't tell us what we did |
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> wrong, you surely can't expect us to fix the problem :) |
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New dev-libs/glib, x11-libs/gtk+ and possible some other core libraries |
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should be in tree (package.masked perhaps) so users and developers can |
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help testing them. The current way they are moved from overlay into |
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~arch is forcing them to be tested, where as having them in tree now, |
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would allow people who *want* to test them to do so. |
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(I'm not pointing fingers, or blaming. That's just my humble view.) |