On Sunday 24 April 2005 23:08, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Also if who approves is _not_ the mentor / sane a 4 eyes check is always > a good thing (TM) it's the way kernel develop is going from years now, > right? I think that doing something like that, surely will increase safety, but will also drive gentoo out of the world.
We have already too many packages which needs maintainers, and having to double-check every commit can be very very slow, because if there's too few people doing the second check, the bottleneck will stop everything being fixed, changed, updated. Another problem is that there are tons of commits everyday, some of them are just trivials. I'm a new developer, but still today i did at least 10 commits, if I counted them all. Some of them was just ~amd64 markings, other were fixes and version bumps. Some of them can't be tested, would require mergers to try the change locally and that could be really long, as to test some of them I needed to rebuild at least 6 packages. Also when keywording is concerned, after some time seeing similar patches you just can't say the differences between them. I've done a couple of errors in this week I worked on gentoo, yes, but I was able to fix them asap. They was mainly trivial errors which I really have overseen (a ! not separed by space, an $Id: $ in a patch); probably double-checking them could have fixed them, but like so applying a security patch would have took surely more than just the about 40 minutes it took. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64) http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
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