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131110 hasufell wrote: |
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> I have often had a hard time to get some random users comment |
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> on certain packages or even assist on some runtime tests. |
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> I don't even know how many people use the package I maintain. |
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> This makes it very difficult on some decisions |
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> when to stabilize non-trivial stuff like media-gfx/blender |
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> or sci-visualization/paraview. I don't use those things on a daily basis. |
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> Would it make any sense to set up some kind of portal |
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> to track at least such delicate packages where we need users |
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> to comment on general stability and especially runtime issues ? |
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There are a lot of simple pkgs sitting in 'testing' for a long time |
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-- eg lilo vifm dhcpcd -- , which probably sb moved to stable. |
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I try to stick to 'stable' for vital system stuff, |
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but am prepared to use testing versions of eg KDE + LO , |
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whose upstream maintenance seems to be very solid. |
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(I never do 'emerge world' without '-Dup' & merge all pkgs individually). |
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If it were quick + easy to report somewhere that such pkgs work well, |
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I wb willing to try 'testing' versions a bit more often |
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& try to help the devs with their decision-making. |
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I would not be willing to install red-masked versions of anything. |
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