From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FoKpZ-0001X8-LZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:45:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k58DgSqd025703; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:42:28 GMT Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k58DaN9f016559 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:36:23 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id k58DabaJ025436 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:36:38 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:34:08 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Shouldn't gcc-4.1-related bugs have some kind of priority as gcc-4.1 is now unmasked? From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <623652d50606080542s3ae73b8dge0e34b88818c7d2c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4487FF4F.9060108@libero.it> <44880201.3090508@gentoo.org> <44880E0B.1070402@libero.it> <623652d50606080542s3ae73b8dge0e34b88818c7d2c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zKW67Cx762v4T921viKT" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:34:07 -0400 Message-Id: <1149773648.19443.15.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 X-Archives-Salt: 9ca88e68-8571-4a68-ac5e-76ee04442483 X-Archives-Hash: 15a0bb53bb304b327f93ddbdc905322f --=-zKW67Cx762v4T921viKT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:42 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 08/06/06, Matteo Azzali wrote: > > Hum, maybe my little english is not good to explain my thoughts..... > > > > I already have a /usr/local/portage overlay bigger than 500Kb. >=20 > I can beat that, try 23MB :-/ >=20 > Anyway, back to your point - yes, there are lots of bugs with patches > attached that aren't being added to the main tree. And there are lots > of bugs where the ebuild or fix is ending up in an overlay rather than > the main tree. It's getting complicated to keep track - all I can > really advise is that if you'd like to see fixes and ebuilds being > added to the main tree, then become a developer and start doing it > (although it is complex for something like gcc compile fixes which are > spread across packages owned by multiple developers who will get upset > if you touch their package). Actually, this isn't exactly true. In the case of a compile fix, such as this, the developer is aware of the issue, and gcc-porting@ is on the bug, too, as CC, usually. If someone from gcc-porting were to go around committing patches to my ebuilds, I know I wouldn't mind. It would reduce my workload greatly, especially as they're the experts on what is and isn't allowed in gcc 4.1, versus myself, who is a gcc 4.1 amateur. ;] The truth is that there's tens of thousands of possible patch-providers (users) and only ~300 people with commit rights. Even fewer when you consider that the package in question may have a single maintainer, or only a small team. Most of the packages that are blocking that bug are games. We're working on them, but there's a small group of us and a very large number of packages, many of which are very poorly coded and require a lot of work and testing. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-zKW67Cx762v4T921viKT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEiCdPkT4lNIS36YERApzzAJ4xIeXb6dWxY0nCMXkFr2GfJktp5QCgmXG6 pkR3W05Dw7Qr4gSk2I5dg+s= =2M/5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zKW67Cx762v4T921viKT-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list