From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NwKG5-0006sS-8X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:04:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 618D2E0B0B for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD862E0ADA for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:09:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh20 with SMTP id 20so5705826gyh.40 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:09:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TXos171SvPIFH5GtvHWUdJMYzOHqsdjvucZOp5tbU1Y=; b=mTYRo61BL/7KhirIIl7nQZwYFC7eAnsGWRK0t5R0Iw/IxymhUR5OrmXhGV5aLSZId/ PvBXpZXZ93S3nwBiPNbEaaV12uY32YWqrkTz+nqU7a18ShcJVgyI0qLsyb6KrkBDlt6t H92cJd0YuJ20JVP9e3SD3V60Q51oxvZkO8Kdw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sLWmxKnyujaSrk2iS7lZhgAMJ3epwmkzYE/NC/EntS6jCLXiKhTe4bQme5gKc8NN6B bPtFEqNr/UVeNaAJRrVIN4bo/uEQbKaFFBz3DNFzL4I3iSrYInnCFhXO/Y9qNDDE1FJM bnmL8w9LAsLtU5vAU80+DyrOjlZN0ZsA5mYmk= Received: by 10.142.3.19 with SMTP id 19mr39070wfc.200.1269886145728; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-92-206.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.92.206]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h18sm603750wfg.13.2010.03.29.11.09.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BB0ECBC.7080107@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:09:00 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100304 Gentoo/2.0.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help References: <201003201803.12902.info@i-vartai.lt> <201003242141.57317.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4BAA86ED.3070903@gmail.com> <201003242259.26091.wonko@wonkology.org> <4BAA8FC5.7@gmail.com> <4BB06F9E.7060009@konstantinhansen.de> <4BB09B9B.2010907@gmail.com> <58965d8a1003290911l361d09c0l9f6b00a1ac78429c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a1003290911l361d09c0l9f6b00a1ac78429c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a9beedb9-a3a1-4089-9cff-c72083d11437 X-Archives-Hash: cd45f4f915e2cf2962a2e417b880cb69 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Stroller > wrote: > >> On 29 Mar 2010, at 13:22, Dale wrote: >> >>>> ... >>>> Filling bug reports is important. I filled over 50 on b.g.o this year >>>> alone. All of them are version bumps or bad homepages. Some programs haven't >>>> been bumped for 5 years. >>>> >>> That is true but I don't have a account there. Someone else does so they >>> filed it for me. I don't guess it matters who files it as long as it is >>> filed. >>> >> It's helpful if you can subscribe to email updates, and help test when >> revisions are available. >> >> Sometimes an ebuild is posted to as an attachment to the bug - you download >> it and add it to your local overlay. Thus you may get the updated version >> before it's available in the Portage tree (some ebuilds are attached to bugs >> for packages which never become accepted) and you can at least add a "works >> for me" comment and encourage the devs by remarking how useful it is to you. >> > And even if you've got nothing new to contribute to the problem, you > can vote for bugs that are important to you. > > This wasn't filed on Gentoo's bug report. It was filed on KDE's bug report. So it's not a ebuild issue, it's just a lack of coding from upstream. I have a Gentoo account but I rarely file anything. Dale :-) :-)