Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question [1] has come up on -user about why some ebuilds take so > long to become stable for an arch. <snip> > So my question is: is there anything that interested users can do to > help here? I know we can file stabilization bugs, but I agree with > Robert [1] that this should not be necessary in the normal case.
Stabilization bugs are not a bad thing. Speaking from a pure QA standpoint, they _should_ be the normal case. There should be a tracker bug for each ebuild which users can tag with "works for me!" and "have tested thoroughly" reports. On the other hand, that's a bit much red tape for most devs, so they don't do that when it's not useful. When it _is_ useful, go for it. If you've been using a package for a while and you think it's ready for primetime, use the available reporting mechanism and say so. > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/166565/focus=166565 -- my other signature is witty
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