Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 07:41 +0000, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
>> its developers. Edgar's call was targeted mostly at releng and QA teams, who
>> should poke developers to decrease number of similar problems.
> 
> Sorry, but Release Engineering has no wishes to become the "Gentoo
> Developer Babysitting Project" at this time.  We would much prefer work
> on our release media.  If some project, for any reason, is not up to
> snuff, it is *not* our job to fix it.  There are simply too many
> projects out there.  Would you rather we switch to a Debian model where
> everything has to be perfect, but we don't release for 5 years?
> 

I'd rather have people ignore trolls (hi Enrico in disguise)

If something is broken and _NOBODY_ noticed it before either:
- it isn't a showstopper for most of the devs and we hadn't got the
complaints from our users
- it should be p.masked or updated with medium priority.

if our favourite cu-troll wants to point that some programs written by a
dog are ugly he could use the same time to fill a proper bug and or
provide patches.

that said releng has the duty to just provide a livecd that works and
stages that could be used to start getting a working system and I think
they succeeded as usual.

There are some known issue pointed already but nothing could be perfect.

"Release quickly & release often" maybe isn't really THE solution, but
"make it to the deadline decently well and plan a -r1 to address some of
the known issues that could hit more people in the future(eg new hw
support)" looks good enough.

that said I hope that the sales on trollfood will end ...

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Luca Barbato

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