Re: [gentoo-dev] Hold on portage feature requests

[Alec Joseph Warner <warnera6@egr.msu.edu>]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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> Jason Stubbs wrote:
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> | The reason behind this is that at approximately two thirds of bugs
> received
> | are feature requests and they are drowning at the real bugs. More
> importantly,
> | the critical bugs are becoming very hard to keep track of. This, at a 
> time
> | when we are focusing on fixing major and critical bugs only so as to
> get the
> | next version completed quicker.
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> Are you having a tough time filtering out enhancements in your queries
> or something? I don't understand how feature requests could possibly
> interfere with anything besides other enhancements.
> 

Many of the enhancements aren't marked as such, dev-portage has a lot of 
bugs ( I've been watching it for 4 months ) and they are varied, old and 
  extremely difficult to manage at present.  As long as the bugs are 
still in bugzilla I din't see a problem with them being closed.

> Thanks,
> Donnie
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