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On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 17:48 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> The time it takes to actually apply fixes etc. is another point. |
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This is where I'd respectfully disagree. |
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> Bugzilla is a poor system for sharing and managing the flow of |
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> ebuilds and patches. It would be nice if there were a way for non-devs |
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> to publish ebuilds/fixes using a VCS so that they could be shared and |
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> easily pulled and applied to the main tree. It takes too long to |
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> browse bugzilla, find bugs, find ebuilds and patches, download them, |
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> copy to an overlay, fix digests, emerge, etc. and most users will |
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> figure it's not worth the hassle. |
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You mean all of the things that developers have to do, right? Funny, |
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but I thought the idea for the overlays was to groom developers, not to |
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provide low-quality half-working ebuilds to users. |
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Perhaps if we had a bug-tracking system that integrated better with a |
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version control system, allowing for easier access to the |
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ebuilds/patches/etc within a bug report, yet without providing a "free |
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for all" as the current project suggests? I really don't know what kind |
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of solution would be proper for this, but I do know that the current |
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idea of an overlay for the entire tree is not something that should be |
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taken lightly and definitely not something that should *ever* be done |
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without discussion. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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