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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:09:57 -0800 Corey Shields <cshields@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| I think having users systems would be profiled may help ease the
| ricer issue. fex, user A has 3 systems, and marks package B as "!WFM"
| on one.  devs can cross link that negative mark to the system profile
| and note that it's "-O12 --omg-itsofast", and disregard the negative
| mark.  You could even take it a step further and setup ratings for
| the registered users, and those who end up with a set negativity
| don't count or something (for the ricers)..

The problem isn't so much people marking stuff as broken when it's not
as people marking stuff as working when it isn't. Classic example:
anything related to ricerfs or gcc-4.

See, it's a question of quality rather than numbers. One "it works"
report from someone who knows what they're doing is worth far more than
a thousand "it works" reports from random users. Expecting a large
number of average Joe types to produce useful testing reports is like
expecting a large number of average Joe types to produce a Wikipedia
article on how quantum cryptography works or a large number of average
Joe types to produce a Gentoo Wiki article on the design and internal
workings of versionator.eclass.

| Just openly brainstorming here..

There was a similar proposal from (?)rac a couple of years back. Might
be worth looking at why arch teams hated it last time around.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!)
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