On 07/07/11 15:36, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > And what about gnome? Does that not impose a fantastic testing burden, > alongside which gnome-mplayer is small in comparison?
Yes, but the value of one's time isn't relative. If you'll allow me to make up the numbers, just because it takes a month of time to test Gnome doesn't mean that the day it would take to test gnome-mplayer is any less valuable. In those eight hours you can still drink the same number of beers, read the same number of books, or -- hell, in this case -- fix the same number of bugs in other packages. > How about the devs relook at this and do it sanely. When the major > consumer of gtk+ (gnome itself) has a stable gtk+-3 very in stable, > then other packages follow suit, not before. I don't think anyone would disagree that this is nice to have; you just have to find someone to do the work. Writing ebuilds is fun, setting up test environments and recompiling all day is not.
