On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:01:08AM +1000, Russell Dickenson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> What BEACH!!! Hungary doesn't have any beaches...ummm...does it? > > Whatever. I can ride in the mountains as well, the result is the same. > :)
Hah! I was right! <Insert evil laugh> >> I'm still a little unsure of why changes that are not bug fixes should >> go into the repo within the last few weeks before a release is due. >> Unless I become a developer, though, I can't speak with any authority >> since I don't know what it's like maintaining packages, doing the >> release etc. > > My intention is not requiring something that I don't do either. If I see > the goal of doing so, I can fix bugs for two weeks without working on > any new cool feature. Doing this is boring. _Really_ boring. I don't > think anybody would do a lot of bugfix commits in a possible third week, > either. And no, holding back a release just because there are 2 bugfixes > in a week does not worth it. It worth if each developer fixes 5-10 bugs > a day, but I'm sure nobody will do it after actively doing so for 2 > weeks. > > Let's just fix as much bugs as we can and you'll see we'll all tired as > hell, not wanting anything for the third week other than having a rest. > ;) (Or working on some interesting new feature.) > > PS: And yes, the list is open for opinions of any developer, but I guess > the affected developers are typically the ones who maintain a lot of > packages (let's say who have >1k commits or so), so the opinion of the > others about the bugfix weeks are interesting, but probably not so > valuable. It feels a bit like underestimating the working bugfixing for > such a long time takes - which is not a problem, since anyway I did not > ever understand what's so hard fixing some bugs till I realised > sometimes it takes 3-4 hours for me to debug just a single issue. ;) OK, > enough rant, please just don't whine for more freeze time without a good > reason, thanks. Wine and cheese over. I hope that one day I'll be able to help with bugs. As always, my opinion is worth only what you've paid for it. VMiklos and others, thanks for your work on Frugalware. It's proven to be very successful and I hope it continues for many years to come. I understand (a little) how much time and effort you all put into this, unpaid, and time that you could spend doing more enjoyable things. May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
