Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 07:41 +0000, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: >> its developers. Edgar's call was targeted mostly at releng and QA teams, who >> should poke developers to decrease number of similar problems. > > Sorry, but Release Engineering has no wishes to become the "Gentoo > Developer Babysitting Project" at this time. We would much prefer work > on our release media. If some project, for any reason, is not up to > snuff, it is *not* our job to fix it. There are simply too many > projects out there. Would you rather we switch to a Debian model where > everything has to be perfect, but we don't release for 5 years? >
I'd rather have people ignore trolls (hi Enrico in disguise) If something is broken and _NOBODY_ noticed it before either: - it isn't a showstopper for most of the devs and we hadn't got the complaints from our users - it should be p.masked or updated with medium priority. if our favourite cu-troll wants to point that some programs written by a dog are ugly he could use the same time to fill a proper bug and or provide patches. that said releng has the duty to just provide a livecd that works and stages that could be used to start getting a working system and I think they succeeded as usual. There are some known issue pointed already but nothing could be perfect. "Release quickly & release often" maybe isn't really THE solution, but "make it to the deadline decently well and plan a -r1 to address some of the known issues that could hit more people in the future(eg new hw support)" looks good enough. that said I hope that the sales on trollfood will end ... -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
