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 1NwIOI-00036V-5a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:04:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6191FE09D4 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:04:41 +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 922E7E09D4 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:11:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh20 with SMTP id 20so5629211gyh.40 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:11:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:received:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=uyKFNQ9YSrXm/nBvBSk8hEbFcqNBvYAigVQY6N4nsuE=; b=oTFgpWqyUMha/NPqV4Wf9TyBVhoTi9XbFUid2FqrlWhR9k9XDvltLDMA7BwYICDeJA N90/8zEigyi8IAW3zsRKInZitmEIU3F81T7wcf90rOoSpYbPPztZH61kPTZQ0J1/jlc9 m5BA8YEq3+tFUcnpiHARkGXTueND9NQEkeFQI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=mTbQFge9AzkyoNGg9Hs/kW6SlfWUN2TaXcdTDUZTCd1tVHkXiFHrTrTgH3u+SFD+9v ORbiJE4XiBhN9uOQFHjEV9mRjqvvKIHBpku46Sj/yP1pbRUbmUzgT/EyL2gAY1CuwG8W CZWo/u55KSP9B5gcL1zxS874RovfRqwEpEPjI= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.111.17 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:11:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:11:08 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9d04eed10c6ce917 Received: by 10.150.237.1 with SMTP id k1mr524974ybh.309.1269879068168; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <58965d8a1003290911l361d09c0l9f6b00a1ac78429c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 690bb7ac-3440-4acc-8204-f42318ecd433 X-Archives-Hash: 53fff790d0f37899b155ee1b8cf2322a 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.