Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > [completely offtopic from this thread, please fork thread if/when replying] > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Since the advent of outside overlays and layman, >> we've seen many more bugs that only got discovered when the tree was >> synced with some developer overlay, or when a Great Unveiling was done >> after limited, private, small scale testing (as with many GNOME and KDE >> releases, not to point the finger). > > If GNOME is involved, I would like you to point some fingers and tell > us exactly where you think we went wrong; exactly which "Great > Unveiling" are you talking about? If you don't tell us what we did > wrong, you surely can't expect us to fix the problem :)
New dev-libs/glib, x11-libs/gtk+ and possible some other core libraries should be in tree (package.masked perhaps) so users and developers can help testing them. The current way they are moved from overlay into ~arch is forcing them to be tested, where as having them in tree now, would allow people who *want* to test them to do so. (I'm not pointing fingers, or blaming. That's just my humble view.)
