I'd like to add a few words from the users perspective:
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1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request?
I hope developers are not annoyed - well, sometimes the words chosen are
maybe a bit too offensive.
I like these bump requests. I add myself as a CC and wait for some email
in my inbox saying "it's in the tree" like most devs like to express it.
Unfortunatly, i still have to wait half on hour, until the ebuild is
available in the mirrors.
Here's my little theory why there are these 0-day bump requests:
Gentoo Maintainers seem to be very different. There are packages (opera
for example) where we're offered the latest of the latest (even betas
and pre-releases and stuff), and new versions are in portage before
you've read the news on your favourite news-site.
And on the other hand, there are packages like filezilla (to just name
an example) where it took ages to get a new version. In addition,
filezilla is one of the softwares that shouts at you: "there is a new
version of me available. get it now!"
And on the third hand (damn, humans only have two) there are important
releases like pidgin 2.4.3 which has fixed the ICQ login issue. You saw
the bump-request coming, didn't you?
2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early
version bump requests?
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Oh please don't discourage bump-requests, even if they are 0-day. I like
them because I CC to them.
Regards,
Sven
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