Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:09:57 -0800
Corey Shields <cshields@gentoo.org> wrote:

> (apologies for the messed up time in my last message)
> 
> On Friday 18 November 2005 06:53 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > We've seen why this won't work in the past... Too few users know
> > how to do proper testing. We've had "please keyword, works for me"
> > bugs for things that will always segfault on startup. We've had
> > several people who think it'd be clever to automate testing
> > reports. We've got enough ricers out there that clearly broken
> > things would end up getting "works for me" spammed even more than
> > they are already...
> 
> Yeah, it's not a perfect solution, but nothing is.
> 
> 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)..
> 
> Not saying this is something that stability or instability should be 
> automatically assumed from, but that it be used as another tool.
> Something to bridge that "poweruser" - "dev" gap.

Well, my (non-working and incomplete) stats system could probably
provide such functionality if I ever get it working.

Marius

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