On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:00:10PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > I believe I speak for most developers when I say we would like more > > stability reports for packages (once they have passed their 30 day > > testing window). So keep filing them! > Well, if even you, the maintainer of a package cannot properly judge > its stability, how is user Joe to know whether he should report > a package as stable? > > Or do you actually get reports like "feature X in package Y seems > stable for me on my box"? For the more complex packages (that have featuritis), I do find these reports very valuable. I only get 1-2/week, but I'd like more.
Examples of things I'd like tested: app-admin/testdisk - recover of unusual partition types. app-admin/amanda - tape changers. net-analyzer/ns, net-analyzer/nam - lots of feature creep to test sys-apps/tcng - lots of feature creep here again. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639 GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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