Hello,
On 1/25/14, 10:33 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
I like the KISS approach myself. This can be boiled down to those
two issues, one of which is a symptom of the other. Arguing and
debating over a long term solution to the OP's question does nothing
to solve the problem in the short to intermediate term. There are
1680 current ports related PR's at this moment.
The reason for the whole tangent was the observation that large number
of the pending PR's are likely to fail one or more *BASIC* tests and
setting stuff up to run those tests is trivial (like I said I voluneteer
to do it)... the other main thread there was that some of the *IDEAS* of
SCM can borrowed and incorporated into manual procedures (such as
requiring a successful build before a human will look at it) the other
one is a more formalized workflow such as the one that aegis
enforces.... if just the first is done I think half the PR's can be
cleared out immediately and if both then 80% can be cleared out within a
few weeks
None of those *IDEAS* solve the current problem. The personal argument
solves less than nothing. Debate is cool. Telling people they don't know
anything is not.
Your statement looks to be pure supposition to me. On
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=ports&severity=&priority=&class=&state=&sort=none&text=&responsible=&multitext=&originator=&release=
the vast majority of them are not color coded beyond white which simply
means "open". Many have not even been assigned. Only a comparatively
small number are "analyzed", "[awaiting] feedback", "patched",
"suspended", or "closed". In other words no one knows how many will
fail. The ones that are a decade old probably will. Those from the last
few months, the majority, are anyone's guess since they haven't even
been reviewed. That is unless you have some hard data to back up your
claim about those percentages.
As for changing the "workflow", again, that's not a short-term solution,
and probably not even a medium-term answer. The answer is to get them
looked at and stop having a pissing contest over who knows more and who
knows less. *THAT* solves nothing.
Peace out.
--
Jim Ohlstein
"Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the
difference." - Mark Twain
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