On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:48:14 +0100 sanchan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Chris Gianelloni wrote:
| > Submit your ideas here, so we can discuss them.  I will be choosing
| > one idea that we think we can accomplish to test out the idea of
| > Council-driven projects.
| 
| A simple QA review of the entire portage tree, fixing any trivial QA
| concern like missing headers inclusion, missing -fno-strict-aliasing
| wherever there are bad programming practices and so on; pushing
| upstream whatever is just more complicate that including an header or
| adding a CFLAG.

And if you don't push upstream, a) it will never get fixed, b) people
will carry on making the same mistakes and c) every version bump takes
much longer. It's also harder for QA to contact upstream than the
package maintainer, since QA will have to look for the appropriate bug
tracker or mailing list, whereas package maintainers know this already.

And ultimately, it's a waste of QA's time. There are far more severe
breakages and there are not many people in QA.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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