From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ErRvd-00021J-EZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:24:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBS3NvaR014072; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:23:57 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBS3LwXX024919 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:21:59 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so443234wra for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:21:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JLjkU4Wb5xLOYCTyObkfB7idTCOorULvQR+lmQjmKcaFitK5+edhMIUfXgVr2XPoDYMyym4o8PDCQ2LhwlDL4zVrPFE7Y/LyKpx3HKydY1z/O5VaAks8gSgALo5oIGLcQLF6wi8fI/WC87alkrw05rQASDLSxmsJbjqBHlAVAxQ= Received: by 10.54.115.15 with SMTP id n15mr7855382wrc; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [64.180.41.36]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 26sm10350777wrl.2005.12.27.19.21.57; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:21:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43B204CF.6020805@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:21:51 -0800 From: Ryan Tandy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting qa warnings to a text file instead of showing them to the world References: <43AF2BF5.4060905@gentoo.org> <43B198D9.3000900@gentoo.org> <1135713763.7402.20.camel@localhost> <43B19FB1.9010200@gentoo.org> <1135714953.7402.32.camel@localhost> <43B1EB8F.9000009@thinrope.net> In-Reply-To: <43B1EB8F.9000009@thinrope.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2ad37f42-424d-4fa0-9d3b-4829dc36bfb1 X-Archives-Hash: 7c3ea6916543aa09909899acdcb0c390 >However, by bitching about problems, there are some users that decide to >check WTF is this warning, in turn they urge devs to fix it (and that is the main point of QA, >right?), they report it with their bug reports and so on. In other words, the problem gets _NOTICED_ >by everybody. > >IMHO, leave it as it is now and don't bother. It is not that much of an output, compared to the >compile output anyway. >I'd prefer even having it red/bold/whatever for easy spotting. > I agree - hiding QA stuff just makes it be there longer. The more people notice it, the more likely it is to get fixed, which is the best way of making it not show up (IMHO anyway). >And for the future, what about >defining something like GENTOO_LEVEL="n00b|user|know_how|master|admin|dev|guru" in make.conf? And >act acording to this, but trying to move the user up a level or two most of the time. > I don't think many people would enjoy having a system that made it its business to tell them what they should know about. Different people have different learning rates and learn in different ways about different things. People who want to learn to solve their own problems will; those who don't aren't likely to want their computer to try to force them to (although I'll admit that Gentoo doesn't exactly attract loads of the latter type). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list