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On 03/24/2013 01:52 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Users who want to fix the problem need to get involved upstream, |
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> there is no disagreement about that, but users who have already |
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> gotten a package masked by the powers that be are vastly less |
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> motivated to do so, because the package has already been masked. |
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Mask != removed. |
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> |
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> Masking communicates that a decision to treeclean has been made. |
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That's your opinion. The masked message says "removal in 30 days" |
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meaning something can change in these 30 days. If you want me to write |
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an essay on every package.mask, sorry it's not going to happen. Deal |
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with it. |
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> |
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> Masking is not at all communicating an opportunity to address the |
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> perceived problems. That should be done in a different way. |
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The masked message says why the package is removed. So fixed the |
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aforementioned bugs and the package will stay. |
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> |
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> A per-ebuild bug metric would be cool. A kind of health indicator |
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> for individual ebuilds, alerting users when some of our installed |
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> ebuilds go yellow, so that we have perhaps on the order of six |
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> months before the package goes red, at which point it would be |
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> fine to mask at will. Does that make sense? (Obviously how many |
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> months yellow is depends on what else happens in the tree. It's a |
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> ballpark figure.) |
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No we don't have the human resources to do that. |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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