Re: [gentoo-dev] Please follow keywording policy

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 10:36 +0200, Alin Nastac wrote:
> Not every time when I receive a new ebuild submittion, I also test that 
> package because this is not always possible. Usually, I add the new 
> ebuild with ~x86 and let testing to the user who request that. It may 
> not be the orthodox way, but the risk of breaking something else in the 
> process is 0 (a new ebuild means no other ebuilds depends on it).

Add it as ~arch and p.mask it, or get more people to test it *while it
is still in bugzilla* until you are pretty sure that it works, *then*
add it.

If an ebuild has a DEPEND on >=foo-1.0 and you add foo-1.2, then it
*will* be pulled in as a dependency, so you can't possibly say that
nothing depends on it and be serious.

> Users don't usually come to me and say "that ebuild works for me". I 
> take silence as a sign that everything works. I am sure I'm not the only 
> one doing that.

No.  Everyone else is making sure the ebuild works before adding it.
The truth is that you've just been lucky, so far.

> I ask arches to mark a new ebuild as stable because a know bug have been 
> solved or because the old stable version breaks something else.

Great.  Don't start a hissy fit on -dev when they don't mark it stable
because they can't test it.  Especially when you haven't made a good
effort to contact them to resolve the problem.  Airing your dirty
laundry out in public just makes you look white trash... ;]  This isn't
Jerry Springer.  We don't need to know who your baby's daddy is.  A
simple email to the mips team could have kept all of this from even
being an issue.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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