Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:16:15 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote:
| We get innundated with tons of bogus bug reports every day, overlays
| or not - see the number of invalid/duplicate bugs flowing every days.
| We got a couple of bugs in last two a three days basically stating
| "ZOMG, glibc downgrade broke my system, t3h Gentoo bug!!11!!" - so
| what? They get marked as invalid, live goes on. This argument really
| doesn't stand.

They get marked as invalid after how long? There're some really subtle
ways in which libraries can screw things up. I've dealt with far too
many bug reports where it took a heck of a lot of debugging before it
became clear that the cause was some dodgy external stuff. And that
was with me understanding the packages in question -- there's no way
bug wranglers could've figured it out.

| As this should be a separate thread, just one reason or example - I'm
| really uncomfortable e.g. w/ QA intervening in overlays stuff,
| considering the current way QA is being done in Gentoo...

I'm really uncomfortable with QA intervening anywhere. It would be far
nicer if the appropriate developers ensured that they weren't breaking
anything.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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