On Sunday 08 January 2006 15:01, Brian Harring wrote: > Guessing you missed the previous flame war about how trying to force > people to do something doesn't actually work?
When it's not common sense, that every dev is supposed to do a minimal on general QA, Gentoo has a problem. > You're assuming seasoned devs don't occasionally go MIA on > QA/maintenance? It's not the case... I did not assume anything, I propose better QA. > > but would slowdown those who continually add new > > packages [ snip vitriolic opinions ] Thanks for calling something a vitriolic opinion, I did notice a few times, so it's a description of what's happening, but does not imply the majority of devs do so. > If you've got an issue with certain devs (seems to be the case from > your statement), take it up with QA/ombudsman, not the loop > around attempt you're doing here. > > If you're after trying to decrease the unmaintained packages, like I > said, generate a list _from the tree_, compare it to bugs, etc. Do > the legwork, kick off the effort to cover the gap. > > Basically, you want to decrease bugs for unmaintained, decrease the > gap of maintained vs unmaintained, work on _that_ rather then trying > to force everyone to drop what they're doing and fix an issue they're > already working on at their own pace. > > Folks *are* handling retirement of unmaintained packages, and taking > on maintainance of packages already- just watch -dev for the > occasional announcements if you think otherwise. To answer this paragraph in a short sentence: No, it doesn't work at the moment, and yes I'd like everyone would be urged to care a bit more, not leaving the legwork to a single person or small group, accepting that devs can feel as irresponsible as they like. Carsten
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