On Monday 13 February 2006 00:24, Daniel Drake wrote: > Maybe not if you have already done the work. I was thinking more of the > scenario, upstream does a release. You are on the mailing list so you > know about the new version. You decide you'll bump it in portage tomorrow. > > Overnight, someone files a request for a version bump. Maybe they attach > a new ebuild or state that the existing one needs bumping. This is a scenario quite good... if it wasn't that at least myself I see it rarely :)
Rarely because if I see a bump, I'm already starting testing it usually. Yesterday I finished amaroK's bump while I was eating dinner :P In amaroK's case, anyway, there's no problem to know if it has relesed: upstream releases always in time, providing packagers with candidates to release, allowing to prepare stuff before actual release.. the release is also broadcasted in their homepage, on [EMAIL PROTECTED], on KDE-Apps, on kde-extra-gear mailing list, usually on Planet KDE, too.... Really, I don't need bugs to remember me to bump it. Mostly the same for k3b.. it's released and then announced on kde-extra-gear, KDE-Apps, SourceForge, .. I can be very thankful if someone would let me know when ALSA gets released as the upstream send mail to -announce once in a blue moon instead.. > That is a fair point, and if you can't afford to spend the time on it > then I'm not complaining. However, there are situations where this can > *save* you time. I try to explain why I did some changes before committing or why I didn't use a given fix usually, I also try to provide documentation of what I do and why I do it that way (see maintainers' guides, that nobody else seems to want). But really, if I get a bug for a thing to be fixed, I try to fix it right away... sometimes if I don't have time in that moment I leave a comment telling where or what to look for..not like there's always someone ready to fix :) If I start thinking "this bug I'll fix later and provide just pointers to users, I'm sure I'm going to forget about it. I actually did that already :) -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/ALT lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE
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