On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:09:57 -0800 Corey Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I think having users systems would be profiled may help ease the | ricer issue. fex, user A has 3 systems, and marks package B as "!WFM" | on one. devs can cross link that negative mark to the system profile | and note that it's "-O12 --omg-itsofast", and disregard the negative | mark. You could even take it a step further and setup ratings for | the registered users, and those who end up with a set negativity | don't count or something (for the ricers)..
The problem isn't so much people marking stuff as broken when it's not as people marking stuff as working when it isn't. Classic example: anything related to ricerfs or gcc-4. See, it's a question of quality rather than numbers. One "it works" report from someone who knows what they're doing is worth far more than a thousand "it works" reports from random users. Expecting a large number of average Joe types to produce useful testing reports is like expecting a large number of average Joe types to produce a Wikipedia article on how quantum cryptography works or a large number of average Joe types to produce a Gentoo Wiki article on the design and internal workings of versionator.eclass. | Just openly brainstorming here.. There was a similar proposal from (?)rac a couple of years back. Might be worth looking at why arch teams hated it last time around. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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