Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-10 Thread Matti Bickel
Hans de Graaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 02:31 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:16:09 +0200 Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: I'm not really a package maintainer anymore. I am, and Marius said all the things that I would have

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le vendredi 04 juillet 2008 à 07:07 +0200, Hans de Graaff a écrit : On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 02:31 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:16:09 +0200 Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: I'm not really a package maintainer anymore. I am, and Marius said all the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Jeroen Roovers kirjoitti: - 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? I don't mind as I don't have the time to follow upstreams that closely for the hundreds of Java packages out there. 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:16:09 +0200 Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellow developers, it seems I've run into a minor issue with fellow bug wrangler carlo (who has been putting a lot of work into that, for which we should all be

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeroen Roovers wrote: Hi fellow developers, it seems I've run into a minor issue with fellow bug wrangler carlo (who has been putting a lot of work into that, for which we should all be grateful). Carsten has a cut-and-paste message

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Luca Barbato
Jeroen Roovers wrote: 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? They are useful as reminder. 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early version bump requests? I won't prevent anybody to send them, but I can understand why people would

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:26:13 +0100 Tony \Chainsaw\ Vroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:16 +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? If it is for software where I am also upstream (Audacious for example), it does tend

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-04 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:26:13AM +0100, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: Just an idea: How about a metadata.xml tag that indicates whether early bump requests are welcome? It's more of an individual developer preference, but that seems the right place for it. If used, what about including and

[gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Jeroen Roovers
Hi fellow developers, it seems I've run into a minor issue with fellow bug wrangler carlo (who has been putting a lot of work into that, for which we should all be grateful). Carsten has a cut-and-paste message that he posts in comments to version bump bug reports that he finds have been

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Tony Chainsaw Vroon
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:16 +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? If it is for software where I am also upstream (Audacious for example), it does tend to annoy me when people try their utmost to file bug reports before I commit my ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Joe Peterson
Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: The time I can spend trawling upstream sites for new releases is limited. Same here - I would never mind getting a 0-day bump request, since someone else might have noticed before I did that a new version is available. Just an idea: How about a metadata.xml tag

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:26:13AM +0100, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: 2) If you had your way, would you discourage users from filing early version bump requests? Just an idea: How about a metadata.xml tag that indicates whether early bump requests are welcome? It's more of an individual

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Torsten Rehn
On Friday 04 July 2008, Tony Chainsaw Vroon wrote: How about a metadata.xml tag that indicates whether early bump requests are welcome? People obviously don't care about what it says on the website, why should they start looking into metadata.xml? I think we should remove the useless

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:16:09 +0200 Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: I'm not really a package maintainer anymore. 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? I guess like with most people it depends a) If I'm already aware of the new version, or would

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeroen Roovers wrote: | - | 1) How do you feel when you receive an early version bump request? | | It's generally fine with me; though I would handle it differently depending upon the situation. For example, sometimes these version bumps

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-03 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 02:31 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:16:09 +0200 Jeroen Roovers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: I'm not really a package maintainer anymore. I am, and Marius said all the things that I would have said. :-) One of the reasons that it depends is