On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote:
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Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this
year alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some
programs haven't been bumped for 5 years.
That is true but I don't have a account there. Someone else does so
they filed it for me. I don't guess it matters who files it as long
as it is filed.
It's helpful if you can subscribe to email updates, and help test when
revisions are available.
Sometimes an ebuild is posted to as an attachment to the bug - you
download it and add it to your local overlay. Thus you may get the
updated version before it's available in the Portage tree (some
ebuilds are attached to bugs for packages which never become accepted)
and you can at least add a "works for me" comment and encourage the
devs by remarking how useful it is to you.
Stroller.
