On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:53:26 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Monday 12 September 2005 19:56, Jakub Moc wrote: | 1. The biggest share of maintenance isn't getting an ebuild right, | but the ongoing effort keeping it up to date, applying patches, | interact with upstream developers, test, stabilize,... To me it | absolutely doesn't matter, if an ebuild is broken or not before | taking into account to maintain it.
A lot of that depends upon the package in question. Some of the things I maintain have pretty tricky ebuilds and some fairly hairy eclass voodoo, but the actual bumps are almost always extremely quick and simple. | 2. People are interested in applications, but may not have the skills | or interest to get an ebuild 100% perfect. WONTFIX will look like | PISSOFF for them. I think we just look a bit petty-minded. We don't WONTFIX it without an explanation. I always give something along the lines of "Please attach an updated ebuild with the following things fixed and reopen:". *shrug* If someone wants to create a new bugzilla resolution, I'll start using it, but for now, WONTFIX is what we agreed was the most suitable resolution. And as for taking it as a PISSOFF... We've had exactly one person do that so far. All the rest of the feedback we receive -- which is a heck of a lot -- is of the "thanks for the pointers, please could someone check this updated ebuild?" and occasionally "could you clarify $blah for me please?" variety. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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