On Monday 12 September 2005 19:56, Jakub Moc wrote:
> Since you said above, that you really don't care if those user-submitted
> ebuilds will ever get into portage or will stay in maintainer-wanted queue
> forever and that's the stuff in portage that actually matters QA-wise, I'm
> missing why are you worried about people not submitting their ebuilds any
> more.

Two points:

1. The biggest share of maintenance isn't getting an ebuild right, but the 
ongoing effort keeping it up to date, applying patches, interact with 
upstream developers, test, stabilize,... To me it absolutely doesn't matter, 
if an ebuild is broken or not before taking into account to maintain it.

2. People are interested in applications, but may not have the skills or 
interest to get an ebuild 100% perfect. WONTFIX will look like PISSOFF for 
them. I think we just look a bit petty-minded.


> At the very least, reviewing user-submitted ebuilds and marking things
> WONTFIX/CANTFIX/REVIEWED makes it possible to filter out the outdated and
> dead-upstream crap, as well as things about which those people who filed
> the bugs don't care any more. And, if someone picks those ebuilds up and
> decides to maintain them, he can focus more on testing the actual app then
> fixing a broken ebuild (or even committing a broken ebuild into the tree).

As I said: Ebuilds in Portage should be reviewed before you think about those 
in bugzilla.


Carsten