On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:09:57 -0800 Corey Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (apologies for the messed up time in my last message) > > On Friday 18 November 2005 06:53 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > We've seen why this won't work in the past... Too few users know > > how to do proper testing. We've had "please keyword, works for me" > > bugs for things that will always segfault on startup. We've had > > several people who think it'd be clever to automate testing > > reports. We've got enough ricers out there that clearly broken > > things would end up getting "works for me" spammed even more than > > they are already... > > Yeah, it's not a perfect solution, but nothing is. > > I think having users systems would be profiled may help ease the > ricer issue. fex, user A has 3 systems, and marks package B as "!WFM" > on one. devs can cross link that negative mark to the system profile > and note that it's "-O12 --omg-itsofast", and disregard the negative > mark. You could even take it a step further and setup ratings for > the registered users, and those who end up with a set negativity > don't count or something (for the ricers).. > > Not saying this is something that stability or instability should be > automatically assumed from, but that it be used as another tool. > Something to bridge that "poweruser" - "dev" gap. Well, my (non-working and incomplete) stats system could probably provide such functionality if I ever get it working. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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