Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> For instance, in this topic I haven't seen any comment from
> alpha/ia64/sparc arch teams...

I haven't commented because I don't honestly believe people care.

I'm really disappointed that the discussion is entirely about creating
keyword-dropping policies and no one is asking whether there are
things we can do to make keyword/stable requests a more streamlined
process. But, that kind of thing seems to be par for the course on
this list.

Keywording and stabilizing is a really boring process. It's really
hard for me to get excited about doing it, and when I do I'm quickly
demotivated by having the latency between starting and actually
testing the package.

I've wanted for a long time a system that can help reduce the time I
have to sit in front of a computer waiting for things to finish
compiling before I can test them. Trawl bugzilla, grab package lists,
go build binpkgs. Just let me grab binpkgs and actually test the
software...

As it is today, it's far too much of a manual process with a lot of
tedious (and automatable) steps. I'm really surprised Gentoo has been
as successful as it has without some kind of system like this.