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What's wrong with the alpha beta being part of ~arch? If |
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someone is working with alpha/beta stuff they know what |
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they're looking for? I really don't see a need to have a |
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multi-tier mess to keep track of alpha/beta/gamma stuff. |
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If it's arch it is stable and works. If it's ~arch it |
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may be broken and break your system. When the developer |
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deems it's okay it moves to arch. |
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:49:56 +0100 |
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Ian Leitch <port001@g.o> wrote: |
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>On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 15:30, foser wrote: |
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>> I think the the problem is uninformedness about the |
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>>policy, does it even |
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>> get properly read by new devs ? They assume they can do |
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>>it because they |
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>> see another dev do it and so it spreads, you don't solve |
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>>these problems |
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>> by accommodating them. |
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>OK, so say something was done and from now on all devs |
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>only submited |
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>packages to ~arch that they deemed stable but whos ebuild |
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>could do with |
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>some more testing. Where does that leave the beta and |
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>alpha software |
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>that a lot of Gentoo users love so much (myself |
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>included)? Places like |
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>BreakMyGentoo would only become bigger and more breakage |
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>would incur |
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>from the lack of QA. If we had an unstable branch, devs |
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>would be able to |
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>keep up Gentoo's repretation of being a bleeding edge |
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>meta-distribution. |
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>At the same time we could offer alpha gnome releases |
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>within our control. |
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>Ofcourse a plan to combat the extra pointless bug reports |
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>would need to |
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>be thought about, but I see that as a small side effect |
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>compared to the |
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>benefits. |
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>Regards, |
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>Ian. |
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