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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Stroller |
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> <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> ... |
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>>>> Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year |
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>>>> alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some programs haven't |
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>>>> been bumped for 5 years. |
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>>> That is true but I don't have a account there. Someone else does so they |
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>>> filed it for me. I don't guess it matters who files it as long as it is |
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>>> filed. |
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>>> |
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>> It's helpful if you can subscribe to email updates, and help test when |
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>> revisions are available. |
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>> Sometimes an ebuild is posted to as an attachment to the bug - you download |
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>> it and add it to your local overlay. Thus you may get the updated version |
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>> before it's available in the Portage tree (some ebuilds are attached to bugs |
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>> for packages which never become accepted) and you can at least add a "works |
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>> for me" comment and encourage the devs by remarking how useful it is to you. |
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> And even if you've got nothing new to contribute to the problem, you |
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> can vote for bugs that are important to you. |
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This wasn't filed on Gentoo's bug report. It was filed on KDE's bug |
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report. So it's not a ebuild issue, it's just a lack of coding from |
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upstream. I have a Gentoo account but I rarely file anything. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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