Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 23:11 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
> Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> 
> > we're understaffed, partly - and this is my very personal opinion - the 
> > problem is that releasing with GCC 4.x has been rushed
> 
> I'd have to agree with you on that.  I understand the appeal of exciting 
> press releases but there were over 75 GCC 4.1 bugs still open for 
> problems in *~arch* when the decision was made to go stable.  Even now 
> there's more than 50 left, with an equal and growing number of stable bugs.

It had nothing to do with press releases and more to do with the fact
that 50 or even 75 out of > 10,000 is beans.  Also, most of that stuff
is in packages that are either unmaintained, or the maintainers are
focusing efforts in other places.  Having a bug report open for 2 months
*should* be *plenty* of time for maintainers to fix their packages.

Here's the thing, there are certain points when you just have to say
that you're not waiting on a few people who aren't keeping up anymore.
Would you rather us lower the standards (just like the US education
system) for the few that are a bit slow?

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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