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On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 18:37 +0000, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> become part of the solution ... for |
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> packages that you find to be stable. |
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Hyperbole aside, I think that this is Jeff's point: there is no obvious |
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or effective way for power users (ie people who have their shit together |
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who don't happen to be Gentoo developers) to do so. |
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If there happens to be a bug that was resolved, then certainly a "yup, |
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it's working now" comment to that bug is in order. |
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However, far more often, the case is: someone gets adventurous, tries |
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something in ~arch, and finds it works! There is, however, rarely a bug |
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out there about it to comment on. Certainly the sub-thread that Spider |
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raised suggests that raising new bugs to say "such and such, currently |
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~arch, works" is not what is wanted. An email to gentoo-dev is nice, but |
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I've never had a reply to any such success report I've sent, so perhaps |
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that is of dubious effectiveness. |
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So seriously: what is an enthusiast to do? |
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The best I can come up with is a contribution system similar to voting: |
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An infrastructure level change tied to Portage in which if someone |
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builds something that is ~arch and finds that it is stable, then an |
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email (gpg signed, perhaps, to avoid the usual spam issues?) gets fired |
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off (on command, after user has had time to consider things) to some |
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aggregator which keeps stats on ebuild versions. That way, a somewhat |
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objective sense of progress and stability can be built up on a per |
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ebuild (or perhaps, per version) basis. |
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There is a lot of potential for synergy here: emerge could report |
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stability scores; bugs in bugzilla could perhaps be tied to ebuilds more |
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directly, etc. But the real benefit, and the point of my email, is this: |
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Power users could get a positive sense of making a real contribution to |
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the forward progress of Gentoo, thus building up enthusiasm, rather than |
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wearing down their energy (and that of the devs!) as email threads such |
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as this one tend to do. |
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Regards, |
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AfC |
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Sydney |
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Andrew Frederick Cowie |
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