From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Noe87-0002l8-R2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:40:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C1BCE09DD; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3CEE09AB for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.10] (bl4-93-198.dsl.telepac.pt [81.193.93.198]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1EEE1B437F for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:39:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Low hanging bug fruit patterns From: Angelo Arrifano To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4B94CC30.6020700@gentoo.org> References: <4B94CC30.6020700@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Gentoo Linux (embedded) Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:42:34 +0100 Message-ID: <1268059354.26000.15.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f71dd6a7-e5d1-4697-bce6-d9b2a693a318 X-Archives-Hash: 6ac2855a871c8621db8a7b8a67e9e5b2 On Seg, 2010-03-08 at 11:06 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello! > > > There are a few patterns for potentially low hanging fruits among Gentoo > bugs: > > SRC_URI errors > Missing depencies > ... > > What else? > > Anything you look after repeatedly that doesn't "take days" to get it fixed? > > > > Sebastian > * Missing/crappy ebuild USE flag description on metadata. That is something, I think, that always help users. There is nothing worse than rebuilding a entire package just because the USE flag purpose was not what we think it was. Regards, -- Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX Gentoo Embedded/OMAP850 Developer Linwizard Developer http://www.gentoo.org/~miknix http://miknix.homelinux.com