| 1 |
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:09:57 -0800 |
| 2 |
Corey Shields <cshields@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> (apologies for the messed up time in my last message) |
| 5 |
> |
| 6 |
> On Friday 18 November 2005 06:53 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
| 7 |
> > We've seen why this won't work in the past... Too few users know |
| 8 |
> > how to do proper testing. We've had "please keyword, works for me" |
| 9 |
> > bugs for things that will always segfault on startup. We've had |
| 10 |
> > several people who think it'd be clever to automate testing |
| 11 |
> > reports. We've got enough ricers out there that clearly broken |
| 12 |
> > things would end up getting "works for me" spammed even more than |
| 13 |
> > they are already... |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> Yeah, it's not a perfect solution, but nothing is. |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> I think having users systems would be profiled may help ease the |
| 18 |
> ricer issue. fex, user A has 3 systems, and marks package B as "!WFM" |
| 19 |
> on one. devs can cross link that negative mark to the system profile |
| 20 |
> and note that it's "-O12 --omg-itsofast", and disregard the negative |
| 21 |
> mark. You could even take it a step further and setup ratings for |
| 22 |
> the registered users, and those who end up with a set negativity |
| 23 |
> don't count or something (for the ricers).. |
| 24 |
> |
| 25 |
> Not saying this is something that stability or instability should be |
| 26 |
> automatically assumed from, but that it be used as another tool. |
| 27 |
> Something to bridge that "poweruser" - "dev" gap. |
| 28 |
|
| 29 |
Well, my (non-working and incomplete) stats system could probably |
| 30 |
provide such functionality if I ever get it working. |
| 31 |
|
| 32 |
Marius |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
-- |
| 35 |
Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
| 36 |
|
| 37 |
In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
| 38 |
Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
Archives