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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:44:25
Message-Id: edfpds$k2q$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 23:11 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
3 >> I'd have to agree with you on that. I understand the appeal of
4 exciting press releases but there were over 75 GCC 4.1 bugs still open
5 for problems in *~arch* when the decision was made to go stable. Even
6 now there's more than 50 left, with an equal and growing number of
7 stable bugs.
8 >
9 > It had nothing to do with press releases and more to do with the fact
10 > that 50 or even 75 out of > 10,000 is beans. Also, most of that stuff
11 > is in packages that are either unmaintained, or the maintainers are
12 > focusing efforts in other places. Having a bug report open for 2 months
13 > *should* be *plenty* of time for maintainers to fix their packages.
14
15 Great to hear that. I'll be with the rest of the x86 team working this
16 afternoon and most of tonight fixing those beans. We actually need a
17 games maintainer, considering about half the bugs fall under that
18 category. See you there. :)
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