131110 hasufell wrote: > I have often had a hard time to get some random users comment > on certain packages or even assist on some runtime tests. > I don't even know how many people use the package I maintain. > This makes it very difficult on some decisions > when to stabilize non-trivial stuff like media-gfx/blender > or sci-visualization/paraview. I don't use those things on a daily basis. > Would it make any sense to set up some kind of portal > to track at least such delicate packages where we need users > to comment on general stability and especially runtime issues ?
There are a lot of simple pkgs sitting in 'testing' for a long time -- eg lilo vifm dhcpcd -- , which probably sb moved to stable. I try to stick to 'stable' for vital system stuff, but am prepared to use testing versions of eg KDE + LO , whose upstream maintenance seems to be very solid. (I never do 'emerge world' without '-Dup' & merge all pkgs individually). If it were quick + easy to report somewhere that such pkgs work well, I wb willing to try 'testing' versions a bit more often & try to help the devs with their decision-making. I would not be willing to install red-masked versions of anything. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
