On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> 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.
And even if you've got nothing new to contribute to the problem, you can vote for bugs that are important to you.
